What the records say
- When
- 21 Oct 1978
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 39.40° S, 143.75° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Disappearance of Frederick Valentich.
Summary
Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 Skylane over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
1978 disappearance of a pilot over Bass Strait, Australia
Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, over Bass Strait. On the evening of Saturday 21 October 1978, twenty-year-old Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him and that his engine had begun running roughly, before fi…
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