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On 10 May 2022, the 50th anniversary of his death, a memorial event was held at the footbridge near where he died, and the freshly repainted Pride Walk (aka Rainbow Walk) in Light Square was officially unveiled. Also in 2022, Adelaide historian Tim Reeves published The Death of Dr Duncan, about the case, which he had been investigating for decades.
Impact of two kamikazes on the USS Bunker Hill. During World War II, the Russian aviator Nikolai Gastello was the first Soviet pilot credited with a (later disputed) "fire taran" in a suicide attack by an aircraft on a ground target, although his aircraft had been shot down and was in a rapid partially controllable descent. [9]
Germanwings Flight 9525 [1] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa.
Frederick Valentich (/ ˈ v æ l ən t ɪ tʃ /) was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, [1] over Bass Strait.
28 November - The first episode of Cop Shop airs on the Seven Network. [67] 6 December - The first episode of The Restless Years airs on the 0-10 Network. [68] 22 December - The final episode of the 0-10 Network's long-running drama Number 96 airs for the final time in Melbourne (note: 11 August in Sydney), having first aired in 1972. [69]
The Connellan air disaster was a suicide attack at Alice Springs Airport, Northern Territory, Australia, on 5 January 1977.. The attack was carried out by a disgruntled former employee of Connellan Airways (also known as Connair), who flew a Beechcraft Baron into the Connair complex at the airport.
On 21 February 2017, at 8:59 am local time, a Beechcraft B200 King Air aircraft operating a charter flight, carrying a pilot and four passengers bound for King Island, crashed seconds after taking off from Essendon Airport in Melbourne, Australia. [2] [1] Four American passengers and the Australian pilot died in the crash.
Series 1 of Australian police drama Rush premiered on 2 September 2008 on Network Ten. The series was commissioned paritlally due to the shortage of series caused by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. [1] It followed the lives of two teams employed with the prestigious Tactical Response Unit in Victoria, Australia.