CAC Plant Reports 1941, numbers 74-85

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1944 Bristol Beaufort A9-176 of No. 1 Operational Training Unit RAAF, crashed soon after takeoff from East Sale, Victoria, on 29 December 1944. The aircraft was on a practice single engine flying training task. Source: RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum website

1967 Five sportsmen from the Victorian town of Bunyip were killed along with their pilot, Peter Limon, when their Cessna U206A VH-RXF crashed in a severe thunderstorm just short of the Daly Waters airstrip in the Northern Territory on 29 December 1967. Source: Monuments Australia website

1986 An Aerospatiale Puma SA330J, VH-WOA, crashed into the sea 20km NW of Karratha WA while returning from a gas production platform on 29 December 1986. There were 2 fatalaties and 15 survivors. It was found that the aircraft had suffered an inflight break up, starting when one tail rotor blade failed approximately one third of the way out from the blade attachment point. Source: ATSB website

2008 Qantas flew its last scheduled Boeing 747-300 service on 29 December 2008, operating from Melbourne to Los Angeles via Auckland. Source: Wikipedia