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Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538
On 10 June 1960, a Fokker Friendship passenger aircraft operated by Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) was on approach at night to land at Mackay, Queensland, Australia when it crashed into the sea. All 29 people on board Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 were killed.〔(Aviation Safety Network ) Retrieved 16 August 2011〕 It was TAA's first accident to cause passenger-fatalities in the 14 years since the airline was founded. It remains Australia's deadliest civil aviation accident.〔(Ten Worst Aircraft Crashes in Australia ) Retrieved 16 August 2011〕
== Aircraft ==
The aircraft was TAA's first Fokker Friendship F-27 aircraft; TAA was the first airline outside of Europe to order the type. TAA's director of engineering, John L. Watkins OBE, accepted the aircraft, registered VH-TFB, at the Fokker works near Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, on 6 April 1959. The aircraft was christened ''Abel Tasman'' after the Dutch explorer who was the first European to reach New Zealand, Tasmania, and parts of mainland Australia in 1642–1644; the acceptance ceremony was attended by the Australian ambassador and his wife, Sir Edwin and Lady McCarthy. The aircraft delivery flight to Australia was captained by Don Winch.
By June 1960, TAA had 12 Fokker Friendships in service. In the 14 years since the airline's creation in 1946, it had experienced only two fatal accidents – a Douglas DC-3 carrying cargo crashed after take-off from Cambridge Aerodrome on 8 August 1951, killing both pilots;〔("T.A.A. Loses First Plane: Two Killed" ) ''The Argus'' – 9 August 1951, p.1 (National Library of Australia) Retrieved 7 September 2012〕 and a Vickers Viscount training flight that crashed on 31 October 1954, killing three pilots.〔("Viscount Crashes: 3 Dead, 4 Injured" ) ''The Argus'' – 1 November 1954, p.1 (National Library of Australia) Retrieved 17 October 2011〕
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