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English: Location: Queensland.

Description: De Havilland DH 84 Dragon being refuelled by a small tray truck with a sign saying Vacuum Oil Co.

Aircraft involved in the accident was a seven-seater, Twin-Engine Dragon Rapide DH84 ‘VH-AUM’, operated under a charter licence for KMH Air Service, where the Mackay pilot Raymond Thomas Knight, aged 24, and Edna Jean McCann were killed in the crash. A funeral for the pilot was held at the Holy Trinity Church in Gordon St, on July 22, 1946. Department of Aviation Officers and police was to find the following explanation to the crash. “The panel found the aircraft had run out petrol, causing the pilot, Raymond Knight to attempt a forced landing in Peel St. In the course of this the aircraft struck electric power cables (lines) and crashed". the panel concluded.

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Camera location24° 07′ 48″ S, 145° 39′ 00″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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