Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
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title:
Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
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Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, over Bass Strait. On the evening of Saturday 21 October 1978, twenty-year-old Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him and that his engine had begun running roughly, before finally reporting: "It's not an aircraft." There were belated reports of
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1978 disappearance of a pilot over Bass Strait, Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich
date created:
2004-03-28T01:03:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T08:11:18Z
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