ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342416
| Date: | Friday 19 October 1934 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.86 Express |
| Owner/operator: | Holyman's Airways |
| Registration: | VH-URN |
| MSN: | 2301 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1934 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Wilsons Promontory, VIC [Bass Strait] -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Launceston Airport, TAS (LST/YMLT) |
| Melbourne (unknown airport), VIC |
A de Havilland DH.86 Express passenger plane, named "Miss Hobart" disappeared over Bass Strait during a flight from Launceston, Tasmania, to Melbourne.
Captain V. Holyman, one of the co-founders of the airline, was among the missing.
The next day patches of oil were discovered some 10 miles off Wilsons Promontory.
Sources:
De Havilland full production list
LOST 'PLANE. (1934, October 22). The Sydney Morning Herald
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