What the records say
- When
- 10 Mar 1946
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 42.86° S, 147.52° E
- Description
- plane crash in Hobart, Australia
- Deaths
- 25
1946 Australian National Airways DC-3 crash
Accident in Hobart
On Sunday 10 March 1946 a Douglas DC-3 aircraft departed from Hobart, Tasmania, for a flight to Melbourne, Australia. The aircraft crashed into the sea with both engines operating less than 2 minutes after takeoff. All twenty-five people on board the aircraft died. It was Australia's worst civil aviation accident at the time.
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