Following the tragic events of February, 1937, when the Stinson Airliner VH-UHH crashed in the McPherson Range, I have received many oft-repeated and apparently sincere requests to write the story of that memorable rescue in which it was my good fortune to play the principal part.<\/p>\n
Green Mountains<\/em>, Bernard O’Reilly<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n A rescue story that has to be read to be believed.\u00a0 Ten days after their plane had crashed into rainforest in a cyclone, two men were still alive.\u00a0 Bernard O’Reilly was their rescuer, and fortunately for us he was a great writer.\u00a0 He was also renowned in south-east Queensland, Australia, as part of the first generation of the family that built O’Reilly’s Guesthouse in 1926 in the Lamington National Park, now run by the third generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following the tragic events of February, 1937, when the Stinson Airliner VH-UHH crashed in the McPherson Range, I have received many oft-repeated and apparently sincere requests to write the story of that memorable rescue in which it was my good fortune to play the principal part. Green Mountains, Bernard O’Reilly ***** A rescue story that … <\/p>\n