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It was at about quarter to nine on Friday evening that residents of the Noora district heard the engine of a plane cut out and a whistling sound as the drone of the engine ceased.
A crash followed, but there was nothing to indicate just where the aircraft had come to earth.
Mr. Harry Edwards, on whose property the plane was subsequently located, on Section 128 Hd. Gordon, about three miles from Noora, set out in his car and was soon joined by a number of other citizens, and a search party was organized.

At about 1.15 on Saturday morning the searchers came upon the scene of the tragedy. The plane was found lying on its back in an open paddock. The bodies of Obst and the observer were located under the wrecked craft and the pilot and
navigator lay some 70 or 80 yards away. The plane had apparently been travelling in a south-westerly direction, and is believed to have been a training plane from a Victorian station.

After studying the police report the Loxton coroner (Mr. A. M. Hilbig) deemed an inquest unnecessary. The -cause of the crash remains undisclosed, though those who visited the vicinity after the plane had been located found small fragments of what appeared to be portion of an aeroplane over a distance of about a mile from
where the plane eventually came to rest. A piece of a wing was found about a quarter of a mile from the wrecked aircraft. On Monday it was learned that the
plane was now under armed guard awaiting the arrival of a vehicle from Victoria to transport it to an Air Force station. The bodies of the airmen were removed in an Air Force ambulance which came from the Eastern State.

Murray Pioneer Thursday 30 September 1943 page 1