Gallery :: THE LOSS OF DC4 VH-ANA "AMANA"

THE LOSS OF DC4 VH-ANA "AMANA"

This photo of the late forties shows the graceful ANA flagship VH-ANA “Amana” at Essendon Airport Melbourne. Not long after this picture was taken she would be smashed to pieces a long way from home. On the 26 of June 1950 in Perth West Australia a typically fine and moonlit evening greeted the 24 passengers and 5 crew that boarded “Amana” for a scheduled flight to Adelaide and then on to Melbourne. By 21:50 the DC 4 was taxiing for a departure off Perth Runway 29, the same strip, but opposite direction to that used by the R4D-5 “Blue Goose” five years earlier and unfortunately destined for a similar fate.

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