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TAA538

September 29, 2020

Thanks to our Patron Chris Stallard for Recommending this Episode!

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

Source: https://kirstycooper.wordpress.com/2014/07...
In Pilot Failures, Unknown Tags TAA538, Fokker F-27, Controlled Flight into Terrain, Unknown cause, Australia, MacKay Queensland
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