Knockabout bloke’ dies in plane crash
THE TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN April 12, 2010,
Albury friend Trevor Bohr said he had recently visited Mr Bourke who took him on a flight.
Mr Bourke, who married fellow Albury resident Jan, also become involved in rugby league at Ayr.
“We knew he (Mr Bourke) was doing four runs and we thought he’d finished the final run,” he said.
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“When we got home we looked down the headland and saw the fire in the cane paddock.”
“We called emergency and went in but there was nothing to be done,” he said.
Henry Peterson who worked for Mr Bourke, said crop-dusting was a high-risk business.
Mr and Mrs Bourke’s daughter Simone died in 2002 at age 29 while living in Tokyo.
She was in intensive care for two weeks after falling down stairs in a subway station.
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