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Date: | Friday 12 March 1965 |
Time: | |
Type: | Cessna 180 Skywagon |
Owner/operator: | Ritchie Air Services Ltd |
Registration: | ZK-BQJ |
MSN: | 32372 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Gertrude Saddle, Fiordland NP -
New Zealand
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Te Anau |
Destination airport: | Te Anau |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The plane, piloted by Eion Buckham, was carrying three overseas tourists on a scenic flight, in light winds with some cloud at 5000 feet around the edges of Milford Sound. Searchers found it completely wrecked the next day, with all aboard dead. It had crashed into the mountainside at 1600 metres, in a steep bank to the left.
Sources:
1. King, John (1995). Aviation Accidents and Disasters. New Zealand Tragedies. Wellington: Grantham House. pp. 112-113. ISBN 1 86934 042 6.
2. Aircraft Accident Report No. 25/3/1505
3.
Crash in New Zealand Kills 2 Formerly at Wells College. New York Times. March 14, 1965
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-May-2009 21:52 |
XLerate |
Added |
24-May-2009 04:38 |
XLerate |
Updated |
02-Aug-2020 21:10 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Cn, Operator] |
04-Feb-2022 00:55 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
11-Feb-2022 08:49 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |