ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 58651
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| Date: | 17-DEC-1978 |
| Time: | >11:20am |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Operator: | |
| Registration: | ZK-CZX |
| C/n / msn: | 84526 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Buller Gorge, South Island -
 New Zealand
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Murchison |
| Wesport? |
The vintage biplane was flying through the Buller Gorge when it struck wires and crashed. Pilot Murray Neich and his passenger Jacqueline Barber both died - the impact was survivable but the aircraft crashed upside-down in the river.
Sources:
1. NZ Register.
2. Civil Air Accident Files, Archives New Zealand
3. King, John (1995). Aviation Accidents and Disasters. New Zealand Tragedies. Wellington: Grantham House. pp. 187-188. ISBN 1 86934 042 6.
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| 22-May-2009 02:32 | XLerate | Updated |
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