Just across the road is the old unused but preserved Jesse's Well, a pumped well for bullock and horse teams from the 1890s.

The air crash memorial a couple of kms off the northern end of the Wondai airstrip. Night time crash in 1990, Piper King Air, pilot screwed up depth perception, flew right into trees then the ground on approach.

Poor bastards.

And I've just now remembered that I should have stopped in Kingaroy and taken a pic of the old morgue at the airstrip there. I'm sure it was a comfort for all the aircrew trainees who were there in WW2 to know there was a morgue handy on site.

Next time.

I've read the 22 page report from the ATSB. Dark night with no Moon and no visible horizon, throw in some fatigue and you have a recipe for disaster. Pilot was qualified to fly on instruments but had no formal "human factors" education while he was training. From reading the ATSB report he also made a radio call just after takeoff which could have been a distraction. RIP.