What the records say
- When
- 13 Aug 1940
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 35.32° S, 149.23° E
- Description
- air crash in Australia
- Deaths
- 10
- Cause
- stall
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An RAAF Lockheed Hudson crashes near Canberra, killing three members of Cabinet and the Chief of the General Staff”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Flugzeugabsturz in Canberra, Australien, kommen drei australische Kabinettsmitglieder und der Generalstabschef Brudenell White ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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