The 1940 Canberra air disaster was a plane crash that occurred near Canberra, the capital of Australia, on 13 August 1940, during World War II. All six passengers, including three members of the Australian Cabinet and the Chief of the General Staff and the four crew aboard were killed in the accident. The deaths of the three cabinet ministers severely weakened the United Australia Party government of Robert Menzies and contributed to its fall in 1941.
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