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Flight Of The Dead

Published: Wed 6 Sep 2000 04:19 PM
Flight Of The Dead: VH-SKC's Continental Journey Into Oblivion
By PHILIP CORNFORD and GREG ROBERTS
A spiral-bound manual in the plane's wreckage was opened at the page giving advice about procedures to enact in the event of problems with decompression.
Perhaps the pilot of the ill-fated Beechcraft 200 King Air had asked one of his seven passengers to look up the procedures, concerned that the oxygen supply may have been low.
More likely, it was a macabre coincidence, the manual lying incongruously yesterday amid the debris of VH-SKC at the site of its crash after a haunting and doomed flight 3,104 kilometres across Australia.
The last message from the plane came 33 minutes into the flight. "Stand-by," the pilot, Ken Mosedale, radioed, blissfully unaware that he and his seven passengers were already dying.
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