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After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft, Australian pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared while piloting a Cessna 182L across the Bass Strait to King Island.
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Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
1978 disappearance of a pilot over Bass Strait, Australia
Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, over Bass Strait. On the evening of Saturday 21 October 1978, twenty-year-old Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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