Address: 236 Quay Street, ABC Studios, Rockhampton, 4700
State: QLD
Area: AUS

Please Note: GPS Co-ordinates are approximate.

Latitude:	-23 22 47
Longitude:	+150 30 56

View Google Map

Monument Type: Plaque

Theme: Disaster

Sub-Theme: Aviation

Description:

Plaque commemorates four Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) staff who were killed in an aircrash in 1983.

On October 24, 1983, the ABC's regional manager Ralph Elphinstone, who was flying the plane , was killed, along with rural reporter Bruce Anning, 28, cameraman Joe Mooney, 55 and his assistant Bill Fryer, 33. The plane crash near Clermont, north-west of Rockhampton. 

Actual Event Start Date: 24-October-1983

Actual Event End Date: 24-October-1983

Actual Monument Dedication Date: 24-October-2008

Source: MA