A Fokker F-27 goes down in the sea just miles away from the runway in MacKay, Queensland, Australia. Find out the circumstances that surround this crash and why no one really knows what happened. 2020 © Anchor FM Inc. All rights reserved.

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Photo Sources:.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Australia_Airlines_Flight_538

https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2009/12/15/2772183.htm

https://kirstycooper.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/taa-fokker-friendship-flight-538-crashes-into-sea-mackay-qld-1960/

Research Sources:

https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Flight_Data_Recorder_(FDR)
https://web.archive.org/web/20100522041848/http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/page/3383/
http://asasi.org/papers/2007/The_Evolution_of_Flight_Data_Analysis_Neil_Campbell.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder#Deployable_recorders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Australia_Airlines_Flight_538

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19600610-1