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'. MARSAR NO . 18/1205.

NARRATIVE :

LIGUT AIRCRAFT OVERDUE AT KING I SLAND .

1. Airways Operations Melbourne adviaed that a Diat r esa phaso had been ini t i a t ed on a Cessna 182 overdue at King Island on a flig h t f rom Moorabbin to King Island. The aircr a ft had reyorted a ro ugh nmn in,=" engine pr ior to communications being lost.

"". . n luqency ftlc •• e.qc \las pasaed to VI:i. for t:r .lnswission r equest.in] sl'Jhtin; and hearin~ reports~ }\.US:Uw waD cheCKed awl t he vo;!!J"w:" HI\:-lI,,;Y ' l£l'~'d/V!\lm was thought to be in the vicinity . VIM ..JOS dskeJ to cont.net the vensel.

J . ~OC .'\~ . ."I L ."t_~ vi ~ed th:lt th ~ircr,;;ft ",'.:::1 p r obably :wc1:1af)',j ",hun t:he trouble began. Nancy tenth was not e;nr.o1oyed at t his itD~e until th~ aircr aft 's position could be confirmed .

... Eight vessel S answe red t he XXX me-sililge :"J t only ~13ncy Heath was in an ImmuJ iatoly UBdful position . Pour of thQ3e vessels were r e leased i~edi atelY but the otfiers were not as they could en ter the area later MNancy H~~th · which had offer ed to a ss ist was requcst£d to proceed dow n the ai rcraft t s intended track to 5 mile from Cape Wi ckham ~i9ht anJ if nothing sighted to resume its

course.

5. SOC AM~ said the airerafe re~rted seeing things (pe rhaps a UFO ) shortly after departing Cape Otway at 0903Z and reque Bted 311 work o ut the drift about the northern tip of fa ng Islan" . ACSC advi sed that normally only the sea current given as StiC work out the rest. A. SOC aeemed unsure of procedures ACSC agreed to provide seacurrent and wind cu rrent calculations ~fter clarifying with the SOC . The target, the est.i~~tcd op1aail point . the wind . aloo ity an d the proposed sea rch datum time . Thia ~nuBl.1 pcocouuru ""D..!O cxp..i.a lned later b) tile ~Ol. ana ",,'10 tli )ught 1\CSC had a compute:: t ha t provided all thQ!;e answer a ll SOC !ILso requcated ACSC to ask local fishing boats fo~ siahtinq/hearin~ rep~rts .

6. A King Is1al1j all fishll1':l boats before .

cray fisherman , Mr Graham Olive! ~oviged that had final l y d~?arteJ tile! f.;uuJIJcl l.iC ed the day

1 . The xxx me~8age was suspended overnight as it had been sufficiently promulgated .

8 . soc AMML amended t he Advised him to use a Sea at 21 200 0Z.

spl sh point by 22 miles at 21l418Z . Cu r ren t/Wind Cur r ent sector of 100/6

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10. The urgency ~e8 •• ge was r ei natated at fir e t sked~ .

11 . -Nancy Heath- oeported a negativ e reault to her aearch and a atrong eaterly d ri f t in the a r ea .

12. An Orlon ai r craft and crayfish boats from King Island cO':lJ"I&enced sealcbinfJI at fir s t light . Search vessela were r eques t ed to s earch fo r a survivor or wreckage on a orift line o f 100 d*grcea f r om ~pla8hpoint.

1 3 . (JUan ccpv r t et.! an oil s lick i n p.:>s i tio n 39 2(J Z 101 40 4£ a nd a cy wa s broau~a8t on RTG/RtF s ee kinq ve9~e 18 ~ble to de taln a ~d.1 IlJ l lo: .

14. .' in} r -'. 6n 1. 11 '1 'l $ t> "t; ! ~JOHj.\'P1H2= re':ilu i ned in t he po s t tion of t"~ 01 1 sl i.cK Ilh ieh appe3re d to o o,l\e from Q s t a t i.on a ry sou r oe .

15 . RCC MU04L ce.jue8ted subnla rine criE t . "f his i nfo.mat ion was prov ided f r om many aources but the indication was that the re wou l d be no ne t flow th coug h Dass St rait in t he pr evai ling we ... ttler ..;oJ".Ji "..iv :"I6 .

16. '" numbe r of r epo ctt: o f a faat mov ing br i llian t white light were rece ived f r ota vario us par ts ot t.he c ountry . I1t Stcomlo ObbE:C vatoLY auviaed t hat t he n i gh t of thll .lls t "'da the peak of t he meteor ite 9t r eam with 10-1 5 s 1ght i ng s pe r hour cbi eved .

17. The " ~;omad " collected 4n o il Dample and coope eated wi th the Dc i on in investigating i t s contac t s .

18 . 'l'he u egency me s s a ge ..,a5 c anc e l l ed a t 232328Z but the aie seaech continued .

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20 . It SU ~P IC fo e the a r ea tor 24070QZ was p r ovhled .

21. At 2 ~0900 Z the search fo r the airc Cd!t was t~ r i na ted with no eiyhti ngo ot ai rcr~ f t , wr eckage o r body mad e despite i ntens ive ~earch in ~ s mall a rea .

22 . Aa a postscript to th1 a mystery , wr eck age W4 4 reyocted off Lakes Entranc~ , checked by police but waa no t r elevant t o this search. The pilot 's father believed that a UFO had taken his .on and wou l d re hi~ later. The accident r eceived wide newspaper and television cover because of the UFO connection.

23. Incident closed.

A.S. (Finance Branch) CANBERRA

76/375 MARSAR 1B/11l9~

3 1 JAN 1919

Three Treasury Vouchers are hereby forwarded tor payment. The Vouchers are tor the charter of three fIshing vessels, the HEI..EN D, BALAMARA t\M NAUTILUS 1. The vessels carried out a surface search tor the 81ss1ng aircraft in the Baas Stral t area on 22 October 1978.

2. The charter vas authorised by the Australian Coastal Surveillance Centre end it 115 requested that appropriate accounting and peyaent action be taken .

(Y.M~.n!eld) for FAS (CSD)

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AUSTRALIAN DEPARTME!\~ OF TRANSPORT

MARISE OPERATIONS CENTRE

AUSTRALIAN SHIP REPORTIKG SYSTEM AND SAR ORGANISATION

QUESTIONNAIRE OF SHIPS PARTICULARS

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If name c han8ed, previous name and call sign

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Signed Mastol'

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MINUTE 76/375

MARSAR 78/1205 i: ::::

7- '/~ A. S. (F~ce Branch) CANBEIiHl\---

,3 1 JAN 1979

Bess Strait Search for Missing Aircraft _ Charter of Fishing Vessels .

Three Treasury Vouchers are hereby forwarded for payment . The Vouchers are for the charter of three fishing vessels , the HELEN D, BALAMARA and NAUTILUS 1 . The vessels carried out 8 surface search for the missing aircraft in the Bass Strait area on 22 October 1978 .

2 . The charter was authorised by the Australian Coastal Surveillance Centre and it is requested that appropriate accounting and payment action be taken .

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Australian Coastal Surveillance Centre , Department of Transport , P. O. Box 367, CANllERRA . 2601 A. C.T.

Baas Stra.t t Search tor m •• ina' Alrcratt

COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE 80 ElIZA8ETH STfH'=ET

H08ART

Attached tor Your information and attention are three Trea.ury Vouchere for a combined co.t of " ,838.45 . The coete were i ncurred during ••• arch for a C ...

n• aircraft

piloted ~ Prederick Valeotich which w.ot mi.eing on a flight fro. Moorobbio, Victoria to Xing leland 00 the 21.t Oc tober , 1978.

Statements are al80 enclo8ed by the pereons Who undertOok the .earch fOllOWing a telephone call from y our office at apProximately 9. 00 p •• • on Saturday, the 21.t Oc tober , '978.

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HOBART

21st December , 1978

Search Carried Out for MiSsing Ai reT.:! ft

n'e three ·<tached Treasury Vouchers for. combined COSt of $1.838 .45 is forwarded for Your information 'nd consideration Plea se in transmitting the file to the Austr'lian CoaSt" Surveillance Centre for COnsider.tion of haVing the VOuchers paid for.

The COSts .ere inCUrred during a search for a Ces sna aircraft pilOted by Frederick Valentich Which .ent .issing On a flight from Moorabbin . Victoria to King ISland on 21 st OCtOber. 1978. To date. no evidence has been obtained to indicate .hat happened to the Plane Or Pilot during the fJ ight mentioned.

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S" ... _ At about 9 JlC on Saturday the 21et of October 1978, I Recched a hne call Pr ~O ~r1ne Ol'er tion., CANBllr1llA, I lVas reque.ted to organ1ze sooe boats to Corry out a .ea re.Cue.search North of Cape Wickham, Xjne r'land for a mi •• ing Light Aircraft .

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I then organized t;xeo of the largest boats on the rsland one of which 1s ~ Own to cO=Oence • .e. search early on the mOrning of Sunday the 22nd of October 1978. I also received s .econd phome callan the 21.t of October from Melbourne confirming that the bo.t. WOUld b'e required ror tJ1e search.

At 5.30 am on the mOrnig of Sunday the 22nd ot October 1978 Ib~az!~Urrie HarbOur in Uy boat the REt!N D tOgether With P.ugh ~.. on the NAUl'ULI3 1 and JObn irn"D1i:/SOll on the BALAL!A1lX and travell.d to the North l'le'~","n tip at lring I.land and tor the next 13 hour. ~. carried out a search ot the OUrrounding area for the .c::1as1ng Plane.

'!'here were two per.ons on Il1$' "es.el Daniel Scott my deck _ hand 01ld my. elf. r WOuld e.t1n:at. that the v •••• l U.ed 'Pl.roldmat.l

y 180 litre. ot diesel ruel during the COurse at the •• arch. I "ould I olso estimate a loe. for b C ot Crays valued ot .bout 300 dollars, other ooets 1.1lCUrred "ere" ! o!, m.' decl:hand wll6Q I paid tha SUm ot 100 dOllar. tor tte days searCh. Also I estimated my cost and other ~~~ing eX~n.e. to be about 20 dOllars per hour.

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Box 1)0, CUrrie, ~nG Island •

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Fiaherma" 39 (20/~/39. ) ................................................................................................... ..... ........•.....••..................••.. ~.- At 5·30 am on the morning of Sunday the 22nd of Octo be" 1, 7<> I left Currie n"rbour in my boat the laUTLLBSl to a.elet in • eea rescue •• arch North We.t of King r.land for a mie'ina aircraft There "ere two other boate "Uh me 1n the eearch t hey were Grahue 011ve~8 HELEN D and John Rendereone DAtARAiA.

There "ere only two per80ne on My VeGa el Raynond BOITLING my deckhand and myeelf. r would eatimate the vee. el ueed about ?63 litre. of <1ei.e11 fuel during the 13 l1~ur .earch. I ' ''ould also ·EIIet

lnate a 10" of i bag of Craye during the day ae I l'I.e oble to work a few of my pota On the return trip froll! the aearch are". I aleo incurred a coot for my deckhand of 100 dollara f or th e daye s.arch and aleo peraonal and aundry expensa. of ubout '22 . 50 par hour.

Arter cOopleting a complete search of tne di rected areaa I in COopany With tne other two boat. return to CU",,.ie harbour "t approximately 6. 30pm. I did not follow the other two boata all tha way to the harbour but .toPPed to pick up eome pota north of C"rria .

Statement taken at Cul'rie Monday 4/12/78/ ( I. R. DAI'J:S . ) l/C Constable . No . 1049 •

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