Happy End: photographs of miraculous aeroplane crashes where everyone survived
 

Lots of great military pics in todays on line Daily Telegraph. Sorry no link, can someone help me out?:ok:

Here is a link to the author's website

dietmar eckell - happy end

It is a fantastic book, originally funded through Indiegogo. I was one of the subscribers.

I highly recommend it as a present for the aviation people in your life (including yourself)

Fox3..Cheers for that mate.:D

Thanks for the post and link(s). Bristol freighters, Daks and C46s in northern Canada and Alaska- how the north was won.

No mention or any photos of the remains of VH-EAC? Or have the remains all been totally removed, to alleviate any continuing embarrassment to QF? :E

Would have thought that the Cessna Bobcat would have been worth trying to salvage?

Onetrack, when I worked for Charlie Q in the1960s, the aircraft movements board in hangar 58 still showed the aircraft location for EAC as 'End of runway, Mauritius'.

At the risk of getting all poetic, there's a beautiful poignancy to those photos, and all the better that no-one was killed.

If anyone's got a good shot of the B-17 pancaked onto the hillside near the Black Cat gap north of Port Moresby, that'd be a great addition to the collection.

Re the Mauritius incident:
I attended a talk given by a chap who was a Qantas flight engineer on Connies at the time of that accident.

The account he gave of that aborted take-off had us on the edges of our seats.
He left a profound impression on us of the skill and professionalism of the crew - and, indeed, the crews of that era, both flight-deck and cabin.

He subsequently retired as Chief Engineer of Qantas.


p.s. ISTR, seated amongst us, was a girl who was cabin crew on that flight.

C46
 

How the xxxx did the crew of the C46 manage to keep it in one piece on that Boulder strewn slope. Some skill there!
KB

KiloB, just wondered of the boulders were buried under snow at the time?

Good thought!
KB