Accident | |
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Date | 10 January 1928 |
Summary | Disappearance |
Site | Tasman Sea |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Ryan B-1 Brougham |
Aircraft name | Aotearoa |
Registration | G-AUNZ |
Flight origin | Point Cook, Victoria, Australia |
Destination | Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt, New Zealand |
Passengers | 0 |
Crew | 2 |
Missing | 2 |
Lieutenant John Moncrieff and Captain George Hood were two New Zealanders who vanished on 10 January 1928 while attempting the first trans-Tasman flight from Australia to New Zealand. Radio signals were received from their aircraft for 12 hours after their departure from Sydney, but despite a number of purported sightings in New Zealand, and many land searches in the intervening years, no trace of the aviators or their aircraft has ever been found.