 One of the passengers was Margaret McIntyre, the first woman elected to the Parliament of Tasmania.On 2 September 1948, the "Lutana" departed Brisbane's airport on a scheduled flight to Sydney.About 280 nautical miles (520 km) south of Brisbane it crashed into rising terrain in the North West Slopes of Australia's Great Dividing Range, due to an erroneously determined position based on errors in the navigational equipment the pilots relied upon for determining a safe course through the rising terrain.