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The Night the Abel Tasman Vanished: Fog, Glass Bottle, No Answer
The Night the Abel Tasman Vanished: Fog, Glass Bottle, No Answer
A perfectly airworthy Fokker Friendship vanished into a moonlit Coral Sea with twenty-nine people aboard and no distress call - and a small brown glass bottle pulled from forty feet of water would become one of the few physical mysteries left in the wreckage. What exactly drew the Abel Tasman straight into the sea on a night when fog, a full moon, and calm water seemed to offer nothing to fear?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure in Brisbane through the aborted approaches and the final unanswered…
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