Southern Comfort, Southern Cloud or Southern Storm Traditional Cache
Southern Comfort, Southern Cloud or Southern Storm
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From this point you can see where the Southern Cloud crashed during a storm
The Southern Cloud, registered VH-UMF, was one of 5 three-engine Avro 618 Ten aircraft flying daily airline services between several Australian cities for ANA in the early 1930s.[1] On 21 March 1931, the Southern Cloud departed at 8:10 AM from Sydney for Melbourne. Onboard were six passengers and two crewmembers, including pilot Travis "Shorty" Shortridge.[2] Weather conditions en route were hazardous and much worse than predicted. The aircraft never reached its destination and disappeared.[3]
The search for the missing aircraft lasted eighteen days and involved over twenty aircraft. No trace of the missing aircraft was found. Many horsemen from around the district helped with the search. Some of the bushmen in the area at the time reported hearing an aircraft in extremely bad weather conditions. In spite of this no trace of the missing aircraft was found.
The Southern Cloud's fate remained a mystery for 27 years until 26 October 1958 when Mr. Tom Sonter, a worker on the Snowy Mountains Project, accidentally discovered the wreck. The crash site was in mountainous terrain within the Snowy Mountains about 25 kilometres east of the direct Sydney–Melbourne route.
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