Moncrieff and Hood disappearance

When

10 Jan 1928

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

41.20° S, 174.00° E

Description

1928 disappearance of New Zealand aviation pioneers

Deaths

2

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

1928 disappearance of New Zealand aviation pioneers

Lieutenant John Moncrieff and Captain George Hood were two New Zealanders who vanished on 10 January 1928 while attempting the first trans-Tasman flight from Australia to New Zealand. Radio signals were received from their aircraft for 12 hours after their departure from Sydney, but despite a number of purported sightings in New Zealand, and many land searches in the intervening years, no trace of the aviators or the…

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