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It is 1988. A light aircraft lays at the bottom of an unused and inaccessible pit at an open cut mine in the Hunter Valley, NSW Australia. There were four people on board. How long have they been there for? Why hadn’t the plane been reported missing? Mines Rescue workers will need get to the plane some 60 metres (200 feet) down to find survivors…but there is no road.

Kel Bendeich recalls his account of the rescue, as one of the Hunter Valley Mines Rescue personnel to respond, and interviews Barry ‘The Bear’ Schafferius who was the mine manager at the time.

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