BODIES RECOVERED.
Land Party Returns With
Dead Flyers.
KOOKABURRA TRAGEDY
(Received 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, this day,
The Government resident at Alice Springs advises that the truck party has returned to Newcastle Waters. The bodies of Anderson and Hitchcock have been recovered and the landing place of the Kookaburra cleared. Apparently it was found impracticable to salvage the machine, but an effort will be made to tow the 'plane behind the lorry. The air liner Canberra, with a Ministerial party on board, bound for Central Australia, flew over the ill-fated Kookaburra on Sunday. The pilot, Captain L. Holden, later landed at Wave Hill and informed the wireless authorities that the graves of the late Lieutenant Keith Anderson and Mr. R. S. Hitchcock appeared to be undisturbed, as the party in the lorry who are going to bring back the bodies had apparently not reached the scene.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 7
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