Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 and the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash , with 29 fatalities each , remain Australia 's worst civil air accidents and second-worst air accidents . The greatest loss of life in an air accident in Australia was the Bakers Creek air crash in 1943 which caused 40 fatalities in a United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Bakers Creek air crash
Bakers Creek air crash
Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538