Into Oblivion. The Southern Cloud Enigma

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Sierra Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 145 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: On 21 March 1931, the airliner Southern Cloud vanished while en route from Sydney to Melbourne, and the nation held its breath as an exhaustive search was conducted throughout south eastern Australia. No trace was found of the missing aircraft or its eight occupants, and the mystery of Australias first aviation tragedy became folklore.The enigma was finally resolved 27 years later, when a Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme worker stumbled across the skeletal remains of the aircraft in the rugged Toolong Range in southern New South Wales.But do we really know what happened to the Southern CloudDid anyone survive the crash Why was a crucial piece of evidence suppressed from the official report So many years afterwards, the riddle of Australias first major airline disaster still poses more questions than it answers.

ISBN: 9780980468694