- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: September 04, 1928
Time: ?
Location: Adelaide Hills, Australia
Operator: Qantas
Flight #: ?
Route: Adelaide - Longreach
AC Type: de Havilland DH.50J
Registration: G-AUHI
cn / ln: 5
Aboard: 2   (passengers:0  crew:2)
Fatalities: 1   (passengers:0  crew:1)
Ground: 0
Summary: Following the conclusion of an aerial tour carrying Sir John Salmond, the aircraft departed Adelaide piloted by C. W. A. Scott with an engineer as passenger. Control was lost in the cloud during an attempt to cross the Adelaide Hills; the aircraft encounted bad weather, crashed and caught fire.
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