The Hunter's five worst aviation disasters

By Mel McMillan
Updated October 10 2014 - 1:54pm, first published 1:00pm
An RAAF Sabre jet fighter like the one  that crashed at The Junction in August 1966.
An RAAF Sabre jet fighter like the one that crashed at The Junction in August 1966.

THE 20-year-old pilot of a RAAF Sabre jet fighter was the only person killed when his aircraft crashed into the densely populated suburb of The Junction on Tuesday, August 16, 1966.

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