A group of people beside a Guinea Airways Limited plane, a Lockheed Electra-Super 14 VH-AB1 'Koranga', probably at Tennant Creek or Alice Springs. The plane had been ordered from Lockheed by Guinea Airways to connect with the thrice weekly Empire Flying Boat service and fly the mail between Darwin-Adelaide. The new model was bigger and faster, carrying 14 passengers at 230mph. The aircraft arrived at Pt Adelaide in early June 1938 and was assembled at Parafield under supervision of Marshall Headle, Lockheed test pilot. At 0750hrs on 18 January, VH-AB1 took off from Katherine and after a struggling climb out turned to starboard and crashed into the gorge of the Katherine River. The pilot, Captain Cecil Clarke, first officer Peter Donovan, Guinea Airways acting chief pilot John Jukes, senior aviation inspector for the NT and WA Kimberly region Alexander McDonald and four passengers were killed. The bodies were flown to Adelaide on 19th January by Captain Harold Cook, with N S 'Nobby' Buckley as first officer in a company Lockheed 10. (Information courtesy Bob Alford, Aviation Historian),