The RAAF’s Worst Peacetime Military Tragedy (PNG, '72) (MSF)

The de Havilland DHC-4 Caribou aircraft provided invaluable service to the RAAF for 45 years, the longest record of constant RAAF operational service of any aircraft type to date. In 1972, a RAAF Caribou crashed attempting to cross the treacherous Papua New Guinea mountains. The Australian crew were killed along with 21 out of 25 young Army cadets, making it Australia’s most lethal peacetime military air disaster. Come see how this tragedy came about.