Another Plane Accident
p. 10 · Read in the full issue
In Central Ng
WHILE landing a cargo of corrugated iron for the Seventh Day Adven tist Mission at Kainantu drome, Central New Guinea on April 11, a Dragon plane overshot the landing strip, came to rest in a creek and was badly damaged.
The plane, which was owned by the Qantas Inland Service, was piloted by Mr.
Frank Furniss who escaped uninjured.
Pilot Fumiss is an experienced and well known officer of Qantas. He was a mem ber of a crew that flew stranded New Guinea residents out from Mt. Hagan in the early days of the Pacific war and was later on the Qantas Indian Ocean service.
Kainantu drome is little more than a strip along a ridge about 5,000 feet above sea level, and is surrounded by even higher mountain peaks.