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Absolutely Revolting
Australian History

The crash

by Lyndon Megarrity •
May 2013, no. 351

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government by Andrew Tink

NewSouth, $45 hb, 335 pp

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On 13 August 1940 a Hudson Bomber travelling from Melbourne crashed near Canberra, killing all ten people on board. Three of the deceased were federal ministers: Geoffrey Street (army minister), Sir Henry S. Gullett (vice-president of the Executive Council), and James Fairbairn (minister for air and civil aviation). Also on board that day was Cyril Brudenell Bingham White, a senior Army officer (chief of the general staff).

 


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Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government by Andrew Tink

NewSouth, $45 hb, 335 pp

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