Finding details in aircraft disasters
In 1936, Mount Garnet was a pretty roug-hand-ready place. A tin-mining town that had seen better days, it lies approximately 80 kilometres west of Innisfail in North Queensland. That October, the settlement was hemmed in by bushfires, worrying residents that the long, dry grass along Limestone Creek might bring flames dangerously close to their homes.
It was there, on a sleepy Sunday morning, that the town’s small
