An examination of the wreckage of the Qantas mail plane, Atlanta, in which the pilot and two passengers were killed when it clashed near Winton, suggests that a pancake landing was attempted. This gives rise to a new theory—that the plane caught fire in the air and not after it struck the .ground.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18529, 16 October 1934, Page 5
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