Mt Corhanwarrabul, 628m, on the western face of the Mount Dandenong massif, Victoria, 30 km from the Melbgourne CBD, is the site of the 1938 Kyeema aircraft crash which occurred near the summit on October 25, 1938.
Eighteen people were killed when the Kyeema, an Australian National Airways DC-2, VH-UYC crashed. The aircraft was flying to Melbourne from Adelaide, and was hopelessly off course.
The disaster is blamed on a combination of the presence of a heavy fog and the use of an outdated navigational practice which relied solely
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