Crash of a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura on Malekula Island: 4 killed
Date & Time:
Aug 8, 1944 at 1200 LT
Operator:
Registration:
NZ4570
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Port Vila - Port Vila
MSN:
6138
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The crew left Port Vila Airport on a maritime patrol flight but failed to return. SAR operations were conducted but the wreckage and the four dead bodies were found six weeks later on the slope of a mountain on Malekula Island.
Crew:
F/Lt Francis Rolston,
P/O Norman Underwood,
F/O Alexander McInnes,
LAC Peter Crees.
Crew:
F/Lt Francis Rolston,
P/O Norman Underwood,
F/O Alexander McInnes,
LAC Peter Crees.
