Solving a 1935 mystery

By Bob Piper
Updated August 14 2012 - 4:44pm, first published May 23 2012 - 7:02am
Above: Myrtleville grazier Ian Ross sifts through photos and news stories related to the WASP Airlines plane VH-UUZ which crashed near Cordeaux Dam 76 years ago.
Above: Myrtleville grazier Ian Ross sifts through photos and news stories related to the WASP Airlines plane VH-UUZ which crashed near Cordeaux Dam 76 years ago.
Right: The Tugan LJW.7 Gannet VHUUZ at Mascot on October 26 1935, with Mr SH Sheard under its starboard wing. Photograph courtesy National Library of Australia from the EA Crome aviation photographs collection.
Right: The Tugan LJW.7 Gannet VHUUZ at Mascot on October 26 1935, with Mr SH Sheard under its starboard wing. Photograph courtesy National Library of Australia from the EA Crome aviation photographs collection.

FOR years Mr Ian Ross (83) of Myrtleville, near Goulburn NSW, has been trying to solve the mystery of an aircraft that flew low over his head when he was a small boy. He later heard it had crashed near Sydney and that there had been a sick person on board going to hospital.

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