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‘Brave’ Flying Doctor pilot remembered on 40th anniversary of deadliest crash in RFDS history
The family of a Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) pilot who died in a horrific crash while on a flight to save an infant child has remembered him as “brave” and a “mischievous brother” on the 40th anniversary of the crash.
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The crash occurred at 6:44pm on April 30, 1981, killing four of the five people on board
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Severe turbulence sent the plane crashing into the headframe of Kalgoorlie’s Chaffers gold mine
- It was the first fatal crash in the history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service
In what ranks as the worst disaster in the 93-year history of RFDS, pilot Arthur Turner, flight nurse Judith Osborne, passenger Alexander Coxall and 18-month-old patient Stephen Lane died in the crash at Kalgoorlie on this day in 1981.
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