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Aerial view of the crash site. A truck is parked outside Mona Bradley's house at 60 Glebe Road, where the doomed pilot's body landed.

Ice cream treat saved them from fighter crash

Mona Bradley hardly ever splashed out on treats for her grandsons. Having lived through The Great Depression and World War 2, she was one of a frugal generation. So it was unusual when, on August 16, 1966, she took the two boys, Peter and Richard, across the road from her house to a nearby ice cream parlour. Richard Bradley remembers the night of the Sabre crash, August 16, 1966. Mona's house was at the back of a converted former cycle shop at 60 Glebe Road, The Junction, an inner suburb of the industrial city of Newcastle,…

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Read more about the article The last flight of Mike Delta X-ray
A Cessna 210. Photo from Wikipedia.

The last flight of Mike Delta X-ray

THE only unsolved aviation mystery in Australia since World War 2, the crash of Cessna 210 Mike Delta X-ray on August 9, 1981, has attracted hordes of searchers and spawned a myriad strange conspiracy stories. In 2005 I joined one of the annual searches for the missing plane, stumbling around the steep gullies and ridges of the Barrington Tops with a group of volunteers and returning wearied but none the wiser. I joined the search because I wanted to write about the crash for The Newcastle Herald, and thought visiting the area where the plane was…

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A RAAF Sabre jet in the 1960s

When Sabre jets crashed on Newcastle

WHILE Newcastle suffered some light damage when it was shelled by a Japanese submarine in 1942, the city has been far more heavily scarred by the accidental impact of “friendly” forces.During the 1960s two Korean War-era Sabre jets from the Williamtown RAAF base smashed spectacularly into city suburbs. In each case, it was declared a miracle that no civilians were seriously hurt, although - tragically - one air force pilot lost his life. The first suburb to be hit was Mayfield, on Wednesday, November 12, 1963, when one of eight fighter jets engaged in an exercise…

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