Aircraft wreckage in 10-35.4S 142-21.6E
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 66/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-01-12 11:40Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · AUSSAR 269/02 POR EGC 61980 110626Z JAN 02. Issued 2002-01-11 08:10Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -10.590, 142.360. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Distress signal received from aircraft, one person on board, between badu island and horn islandcancelled by this notice
- Ordnance drop exercises 0001Z to 1100Z daily: a. 16 jan within 18 miles of 32-30N 126-10Elater cancellation notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROPAC 65/022002-01-11 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 66/02 · this notice2002-01-11 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2002-01-11 08:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSSAR 269/02 POR EGC 61980 110626Z JAN 02
- issued by
- AUSSAR
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -10.590, 142.360
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. AIRCRAFT WRECKAGE IN 10-35.4S 142-21.6E. ONE PERSON MISSING. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC AUSTRALIA, TELEX: 7162025, PHONE: 612 6230 6811. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 65/02.
Reading this warning
- Dangerous wreck
- A sunken vessel close enough to the surface to endanger ships, or wreckage reported in the water.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
314 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Five persons overboard from vesssel, capsized and adrift in vicinity of trackline joining 09-16.00S…2024-05-04
- Capsized vessel, three persons on board, adrift in 09-34.98S 144-06.12E at 021040Z may2024-05-02
- Capsized vessel, three persons on board, adrift in 09-35.52S 144-06.95E at 020756Z may2024-05-02
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 09-33.40S 144-07.20E at 020531Z may2024-05-02
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 12-51.27S 143-49.93E at 220006Z mar2024-03-22
- Seven meter vessel, 12 persons on board, requesting assistance in 09-26.58S 143-07.11E at 070455Z jan2024-01-07
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
- Derelict ten meter vessel adrift in 11-55.02S 141-54.27E at 020629Z augDerelicts · 84.1 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:23Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.