ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 27085
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| Date: | Thursday 7 April 1955 |
| Time: | 04:14 LT |
| Type: | Avro 694 Lincoln B Mk 30 |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) |
| Registration: | A73-64 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mount Superbus, QLD -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | RAAF Townsville, Queensland |
| Eagle Farm airfield, Brisbane | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The flight took off from Townsville taking a sick baby to a hospital in Brisbane. The flight crashed in bad weather at Mount Superbus killing all 6 (2 passengers and 4 crew) on board.
At 4.05 am the aircraft contacted Brisbane Air Traffic Control to advise that they were flying in cloud at 6,000 feet. They advised that they would arrive in Brisbane in about 10 minutes time and sought a clearance to reduce altitude to 5,000 feet. Brisbane Air Traffic Control advised that they were cleared to drop to 5,000 feet and if they wished they could drop to 4,000 feet for the approach to Eagle Farm airfield.
A short time later Brisbane Air Traffic Control contacted them with weather information and asked them to confirm when they had obtained a visual fix on the town of Caboolture. No further reports were heard from the Lincoln bomber. There were no low clouds in the Brisbane area at that time.
Some time later, reports came in that an aircraft, later confirmed as a Lincoln, was heard to circle over the town of Bell at about 3.30 am. Bell is located about 18 miles north east of Dalby. Clearly A73-64 was well off course. The weather south of Bell was overcast with scattered rain.
At 4.14 am some members of the Brisbane Bushwalking Club heard a large aircraft fly overhead followed by the noise of an impact and some large explosions. By their estimation it had slammed into a nearby mountain in the Main Range region of the Border Ranges near Emu Vale. This was later confirmed to be Mount Superbus, the highest mountain (1,375 metres) in southern Queenslan
Large pieces of wreckage still remained at the crash site (in 2012); however, one substantial piece of the starboard tail section (fin, rudder, and tailplane) is now on display at the RAAF Museum
Sources:
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?107101-RAAF-Museum-s-Strike-Hangar-now-open
https://www.ozatwar.com/
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/.au/dfs/LincolnA73-64.pdf
http://www.gearthhacks.com/downloads/related.php?file=22931
http://vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/strike.html
http://www.ddac.com.au/documents/slipstream/slipstream_april_2009.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 15-May-2012 23:59 | ryan | Updated [Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Apr-2013 22:39 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 30-Apr-2013 22:43 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Apr-2013 22:45 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time] |
| 01-May-2013 13:08 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 06-Feb-2017 21:04 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 06-Feb-2017 21:07 | TB | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Apr-2022 10:40 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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