Re: Plane/train collisions

["< Tell >" <telljb@netozemail.com.au>]

Batchelor airstrip 97 Kms by rail from Darwin had the
east west runway, crossing over the old NAR mainline.

Although there were no recorded train/plane collisions,
in the early years of WW2 a US B17 crash landed and
blocked the line.
 
....Tell


>dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
>
> There are several examples in Australia of railways running very close to
> and even through airports (e.g. Wynyard). Have there been many instances
> of planes colliding with trains? I read somewhere that a DC-3 clipped a
> coal train on the Botany goods line in the 1930s.
> 
> Cheers
> David