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1940 Canberra air disaster
Wreckage of A16-97
Accident
Date
13 August 1940
Summary
Stall on landing
Site
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 35°19′06″S149°13′45″E / 35.3184°S 149.2293°E / -35.3184; 149.2293
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Lockheed Hudson
Operator
Royal Australian Air Force
Registration
A16-97
Flight origin
Essendon Airport
Destination
Canberra Airport
Occupants
10
Passengers
6
Crew
4
Fatalities
10
Survivors
0
Two Australian Lockheed Hudsons in 1940
The 1940 Canberra air disaster was an aircraft crash that occurred near Canberra, the capital of Australia, on 13 August 1940, during World War II. All ten people on board were killed: six passengers, including three members of the Australian Cabinet and the Chief of the General Staff; and four crew.[1] The aircraft is believed to have stalled on its landing approach, when it was too low to recover.
The deaths of the three cabinet ministers severely weakened the United Australia Party government of Robert Menzies and contributed to its fall in 1941.[2]
^"Nation Mourns Victims of Air Disaster" (scan). Canberra Times. 15 August 1940. p. 2 – via Trove.
^Tink, Andrew "Air Disaster Canberra: the plane crash that destroyed a government Archived 9 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine". NewSouth Books. 1 April 2013, ISBN 9781742233574, Retrieved 17 April 2013 via boffinsbookshop.com.au
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