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==Accidents and incidents== | ==Accidents and incidents== | ||
Golden Pacific is notorious for its many accidents and incidents in the past. Especially around the year 1975 when budget cuts were put after the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. | Golden Pacific is notorious for its many accidents and incidents in the past. Especially around the year 1975 when budget cuts were put after the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. | ||
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|Due to the recent oil crisis, the Golden Pacific company took a bunch of budget cuts. The plane did not get checked up for almost 2 years. While flying from Tullamarine to Kingsford Smith the two left engines stopped working, The plane made an SOS to land at the Canberra Airport. Unfortunately the plane did not make the airport and it had to make an emergancy landing in Lake George just outside of Canberra. 3 people died of hypothermia and many were hospitalized. After the budget cuts got out to the public, the enraged families of the victims, and some survivors sued the company. The GP company could not afford this, causing the company to file for chapter 11th bankruptcy in August 1975 | |Due to the recent oil crisis, the Golden Pacific company took a bunch of budget cuts. The plane did not get checked up for almost 2 years. While flying from Tullamarine to Kingsford Smith the two left engines stopped working, The plane made an SOS to land at the Canberra Airport. Unfortunately the plane did not make the airport and it had to make an emergancy landing in Lake George just outside of Canberra. 3 people died of hypothermia and many were hospitalized. After the budget cuts got out to the public, the enraged families of the victims, and some survivors sued the company. The GP company could not afford this, causing the company to file for chapter 11th bankruptcy in August 1975 | ||
|Lake George, Australia | |Lake George, Australia | ||
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flight 004 | |||
1977 | |||
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|This small Starflight Airlines flight flew from canberra airport to perth. Around 2 AM the flight went off radar above the australian outback. Rescue efforts were started a full 7 hours later, and they didnt arrive untill 6 PM in the afternoon because they drove all the way out from Alice Springs. The plane crash was found near the small town of Beadell. Everyone on the plane was found dead. | |||
|Beadell, Australia | |||
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