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Two coronial inquiries failed to attribute any blame for the crash. In 2013, a
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during a routine shark patrol when it suddenly banked steeply and crashed onto the crowded beach in front of the
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was an aircraft accident that occurred at 11.10am on 30 December 1950 at
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Shirley remembers day she lost young brother (Graham Blair)
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1169:Australia Beechcraft King Air crash
1123:Alice Springs hot air balloon crash
1021:Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538
1013:Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408
852:Airlines of Australia Stinson crash
359:"Plane crashes into crowd on beach"
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703:Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash
435:"Shirley remembers losing brother"
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367:. 31 December 1950. pp. 1,
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653:Myrtle Beach USAF C-46D crash
328:. 30 December 1950. p. 1
289:. 31 December 1950. p. 1
1279:Gold Coast mid-air collision
1252:Sydney Seaplanes DHC-2 crash
1107:Advance Airlines Flight 4210
903:KNILM Douglas DC-3 shootdown
879:Brocklesby mid-air collision
663:Northwest Orient Flight 2501
495:Map of location of air crash
1335:1950 disasters in Australia
1193:Lockhart River air disaster
1177:Whyalla Airlines Flight 904
1064:Ansett Australia Flight 232
683:Panair do Brasil Flight 099
623:Northwest Orient Flight 307
613:British Columbia B-36 crash
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753:Tête de l'Obiou C-54 crash
207:Royal Australian Air Force
93:Royal Australian Air Force
1217:Pel-Air Westwind ditching
1088:Cessna 188 Pacific rescue
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643:Air France DC-4 accidents
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249:"Site marks plane crash"
603:USAF C-54 disappearance
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1185:QantasLink Flight 1737
1072:Connellan air disaster
911:Bakers Creek air crash
593:Sverdlovsk plane crash
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281:"3 die in beach crash"
1142:RAAF Boeing 707 crash
1037:Ansett-ANA Flight 149
1029:Ansett-ANA Flight 325
927:Canal Creek air crash
887:Canberra air disaster
693:Karaganda Il-12 crash
113:Redcliffe, Queensland
743:Air India Flight 245
633:Llandow air disaster
447:on 29 September 2011
440:Sunshine Coast Daily
320:"Deaths at Maroochy"
261:on 29 September 2011
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222:surf patrol duties.
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1304:Categories
895:Little Eva
234:References
193:Queensland
145:Fatalities
129:Passengers
39:Occurrence
226:Memorials
153:Survivors
68:Australia
451:17 March
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