ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 31580
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| Date: | Sunday 11 June 1978 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Beechcraft B58 Baron |
| Owner/operator: | Avior |
| Registration: | VH-DRU |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Norseman, WA -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Norseman, Western Australia (YNSM) |
| Perth Jandakot (JAD/YPJT), Western Australia | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Written off 11 June 1978: Crashed and caught fire on takeoff from Norseman, Western Australia. Five football players and their pilot were killed when their plane crashed after taking of at Norseman airport after a local game. In those days, players were recruited from Perth, and flown to the local towns for their Football games each week between the country towns. This was a tragic loss to family members and the whole sporting communities involved.
Accident happened at night - about 8-9pm, or maybe even 11-12, I think. I think that the pilot had been waiting there patiently for some time, and was anxious to get off back to Perth...I think the primary cause was failure to remove a control lock pin which had none of the usual wires and red PVC 'locks' over the engine power quadrant, that is, it was more or less a 2 inch hard to see stub thru the yoke.
The "original" factory supplied gizmo had a device attached to the control lock that was put over the throttles as well. The original intention being that it prevented starting the engines with the lock in.
Sources:
1. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1979/1979
2. https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general-aviation-questions/120692-aircraft-crash-norseman-wa-1978-a.html
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football_in_the_Goldfields_region_of_Western_Australia#Recent_history
4. http://www.infobarrel.com/A_guide_to_Norseman_Western_Australia_and_some_Interesting_and_Historical_Events
5. Netherlands national archive, UPI press photo of the crash scene: http://proxy.handle.net/10648/77d9533e-c406-fbfa-b4bd-d6fc64888734
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Apr-2014 21:33 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Apr-2014 21:40 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 22-Apr-2014 21:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 05-Apr-2021 11:50 | Hoekb03 | Updated [Source] |
| 07-Jun-2022 20:18 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 17-Nov-2022 22:34 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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