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1940 Canberra air disaster
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. The deaths of the three cabinet ministers severely weakened the United Australia Party government of Robert Menzies and contributed to its fall in 1941.〔(Andrew Tink: Air Disaster Canberra: the plane crash that destroyed a government: Published by ''New South Books'': 1 April 2013: ISBN 9781742233574: Retrieved 17 April 2013 )〕
==Crash==
The Ministers and General White, with their staff, were being flown from Melbourne to Canberra for a Cabinet meeting. The aircraft, an RAAF Lockheed Hudson II bomber, was flown by an experienced RAAF officer, Flight Lieutenant Robert Hitchcock. The aircraft, ''A16-97'', had been in service with the RAAF since 20 June 1940, and was being operated by No.2 Squadron.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/hudson/A16-97.html )〕
The Melbourne ''Herald'' reported: "The plane was seen by watchers at the Canberra Aerodrome and the Air Force station to circle the drome, and then rise and head south. It disappeared behind a low tree-dotted hill. There was an explosion and a sheet of flame, followed by a dense cloud of smoke... The Canberra Fire Brigade and ambulances from Canberra and Queanbeyan, across the border in New South Wales, as well as several Air Force tenders, arrived soon afterwards and fire extinguishers were played on the blazing wreckage. After about half-an-hour, when the blaze had died down, it was seen that the entire undercarriage, wings and structural supports of the plane had been torn away and were a smouldering mass in which were the charred bodies of those on board."
Two other Cabinet ministers, Arthur Fadden, leader of the Country Party, and Senator George McLeay, had intended to fly to Canberra on the same flight, but for personal reasons decided to travel by train instead.
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