Re: Old Plane Crash Site on Mt Guouogang
Posted: Wed 07 Jan, 2015 9:35 pm
I missed the report so I'm trying to work out the situation here regarding plane crashes in this region.
We have the one around Christys Creek.
Then there is the one near Mt Guouogang (VH-PKX) featured in photos on this thread.
The trove article mentions another plane, a military Dragonfly which isn't either of the about two, so that makes three planes (I wonder where this one is located?)
Not there is the Hazelton Plane Crash. Is this VH-PKX, or a completely separate thing? Going off your info Dave of Jenolan Pit, I'd say it would be the same one. Not sure if the dates (you say 1954) work out though.
The Girls Gasping Through The Gangerangs article http://www.subw.org.au/archives/POR/Gasping.html mentions this "On the narrow ridgeline of Mt. Queahgong, we discovered a recent plane wreck. One wing was poking up out of the side of the ridge. The surrounding vegetation was burnt and the fuselage was just a lump of fused metal. Carol remembered that this plane had crashed about twelve months prior to our trip and it had taken the police a long time to find it.". As the trip was taken a few years after 1966 suggests that VH-PKX crashed in a period around 1967-1970 or so.
The guys that posted the videos of finding VH-PKX state on some forums that it crashed in 1965. Not sure where they got that from (maybe getting the dates from that article a little confused - one year previous to 1966), but it is at least in the same sort of time period. It is though definitely in the wrong time period to be the Hazelton plane which definitely crashed in 1954. It would also seem odd that Dick Smith couldn't find the wreck if it was VH-PKX near Guouogang given the amount of info on the web about it.
My thought is that there are 4 separate planes in the area (although the Christys Creek one is a little further away from the others).
Anyone have any info?
We have the one around Christys Creek.
Then there is the one near Mt Guouogang (VH-PKX) featured in photos on this thread.
The trove article mentions another plane, a military Dragonfly which isn't either of the about two, so that makes three planes (I wonder where this one is located?)
Not there is the Hazelton Plane Crash. Is this VH-PKX, or a completely separate thing? Going off your info Dave of Jenolan Pit, I'd say it would be the same one. Not sure if the dates (you say 1954) work out though.
The Girls Gasping Through The Gangerangs article http://www.subw.org.au/archives/POR/Gasping.html mentions this "On the narrow ridgeline of Mt. Queahgong, we discovered a recent plane wreck. One wing was poking up out of the side of the ridge. The surrounding vegetation was burnt and the fuselage was just a lump of fused metal. Carol remembered that this plane had crashed about twelve months prior to our trip and it had taken the police a long time to find it.". As the trip was taken a few years after 1966 suggests that VH-PKX crashed in a period around 1967-1970 or so.
The guys that posted the videos of finding VH-PKX state on some forums that it crashed in 1965. Not sure where they got that from (maybe getting the dates from that article a little confused - one year previous to 1966), but it is at least in the same sort of time period. It is though definitely in the wrong time period to be the Hazelton plane which definitely crashed in 1954. It would also seem odd that Dick Smith couldn't find the wreck if it was VH-PKX near Guouogang given the amount of info on the web about it.
My thought is that there are 4 separate planes in the area (although the Christys Creek one is a little further away from the others).
Anyone have any info?