About 280 nautical miles (520 km) south of Brisbane it crashed into rising terrain in the North West Slopes of Australia's Great Dividing Range, due to an erroneously determined position based on errors in the navigational equipment the pilots relied upon for determining a safe course through the rising terrain.
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The aircraft crashed in a clear area between huts at the South Guildford housing camp, a former Army camp where 70 huts were being used to house civilians.
In the inquiry into the 1946 Australian National Airways DC-3 crash, Pape assisted Dr E.G. Coppel KC who represented Australian National Airways, the aircraft operator.