Date:	Thursday 16 April 1936
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.60M Moth
Owner/operator:	1 FTS RAAF
Registration:	A7-69
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	1.5 miles east of RAAF Point Cook -   Australia
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAAF Point Cook, Victoria (YMPC)
Destination airport:	RAAF Point Cook, Victoria (YMPC)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Destroyed when it suffered a structural failure in the port lower wing during aerobatics and crashed 1.5 miles East of RAAF Point Cook, Victoria 16.4.36; Pilot Cadet Norman Lindsay Chaplin killed.

The pilot jumped from a the aircraft but his parachute became entangled in the machine and did not open fully.
The pilot was practising aerobatics in the Gipsy Moth plane and he had just completed a loop, when the port wing failed.

1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
2. Kalgoorlie Miner (Kalgoorlie WA) Friday 17 April 1936 Page 4 AIR CADET KILLED: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/94909801
3. Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette (North Murchison, WA) Friday 17 April 1936 Page 3 AIR CADET KILLED: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/211610533
4. The Age (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Friday 17 April 1936 Page 9: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/121132460/
5. The Irwin Index (Mingenew, WA) Saturday 18 April 1936 Page 3 AIR CADET KILLED: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/252027673
6. Report on Pilots Funeral: The Herald (Melbourne, Vic.) Saturday 18 April 1936 Page 2 Air Force Honors at Funeral of Cadet: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244880946
7. The Daily News (Perth, WA) Tuesday 28 April 1936 Page 2 ILL-FATED CADET WAS DOING ACROBATICS: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/84228027
8. Inquest into Pilots Death: Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Vic.) Wednesday 29 April 1936 Page 3 LATEST TELEGRAMS AEROPLANE FATALITY: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/268104202
9. https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/norman-lindsay-chaplin-birth-1917-death-1936-austr/143364843
10. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/CMS/raaf2/2a7
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Williams#RAAF_Base_Point_Cook

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Feb-2024 17:19	Dr. John Smith	Added
04-Feb-2024 17:21	harro	Updated [Other fatalities, Narrative]
04-Feb-2024 17:21	harro	Updated [Other fatalities]
04-Feb-2024 20:48	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]