{"id":8174,"date":"2017-02-19T14:04:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T14:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:42:09","slug":"8174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/8174\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stinson Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, 19 February 2017, is the 80th anniversary of the crash of the Stinson in Lamington Ranges National Park in Southern Queensland, half a kilometre from the border with New South Wales, in 1937. I attended the 50th anniversary commemoration in February 1987, where I met some of the original rescue party, as I reported <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/06\/connections-south-of-my-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. The plane was the Stinson Model A <em>Brisbane<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The plane was on a scheduled Airlines of Australia flight from Brisbane to Sydney, with 2 pilots and 5 passengers on board. Both pilots and 2 of the passengers died in the crash. One passenger, James Westray, went for help, but died after falling down a waterfall. Judith Wright, who later lived in nearby Mount Tamborine for two decades, wrote a poem about Westray, <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/12\/poem-the-lost-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lost Man<\/a>. The two survivors, John Proud and Joseph Binstead, owed their rescue to the intuition and perseverance of legendary Australian bushman Bernard O&#8217;Reilly (1903-1975).<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The passengers and crew were:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>Joseph Robert Binstead, wool broker, of Manly NSW\n<li>John Seymour Proud, mining engineer, of Wahroonga NSW\n<li>William Walden Fountain, architect, 41 of Hamilton, Brisbane QLD (originally from New Jersey)\n<li>James Ronald Nairne Graham, Managing Director, 55 of Hunters Hill NSW\n<li>William James Guthrie Westray, Insurance Underwriter, 25 of Kensington, London, England\n<li>Commercial Pilot, Beverly George Merivale Shepherd, 25 of Sydney NSW\n<li>Commercial Pilot, Reginald Haslem Boyden, 41 of Randwick NSW.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Proud (1907-1997) went on to a prominent career as a mining engineer and executive, and was a generous philanthropist. &nbsp;Some more information can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/experimentalghost.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/10\/the-stinson-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>A report in the Beaudesert Times on the 80th anniversary trek is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaudeserttimes.com.au\/story\/4476517\/hikers-honour-stinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 19 February 2017, is the 80th anniversary of the crash of the Stinson in Lamington Ranges National Park in Southern Queensland, half a kilometre from the border with New South Wales, in 1937. I attended the 50th anniversary commemoration in February 1987, where I met some of the original rescue party, as I reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes","category-history","category-poetry","p1","y2017","m02","d19","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14252,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions\/14252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}