THE TRAGEDY OF THE FIRST TASMAN FLIGHT.
At 2.44 o’clock (Sydney time) on the morning of Tuesday, January 10, 1928, Lieut. Moncrieff and Captain Hood left Richmond Aerodrome (Sydney) in a Ryan monoplane. This was the first attempt to fly from Australia to New Zealand. The adventure ended in disaster, no trace of the airmen or their machine having been discovered.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 41
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61THE TRAGEDY OF THE FIRST TASMAN FLIGHT. Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 41
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