ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 1351
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| Date: | Friday 26 October 2007 |
| Time: | 15:00 |
| Type: |  Cessna A152 Aerobat |
| Owner/operator: | Bay Flight International |
| Registration: | ZK-KID |
| MSN: | A152-0869 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Ngaputahi, Bay of Plenty 3 -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | NZTG (Tauranga) |
| NZTG (Tauranga) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A 21-year-old instructor with 500 hours experience and a 19-year-old student from the Bay Flight International Flying School, flying in a Cessna 152, were on a two hour cross country flight when it plunged into dense bush in a gully near Ruatahuna, north-west of Lake Waikaremoana in the Urewera National Park. The student had handed the controls over to the instructor just minutes before they crashed when the aircraft had encountered what the student described as swirly wind conditions. The instructor died on impact, but the student survived with an injured eye, grazed face, broken finger and injured ankle. After pulling the instructor from the wreckage and checking for a pulse and realizing there was nothing he could do for her, he then battled 500m through steep bush-covered terrain to a road where a Ruatahuna farm manager picked him up and took him to Papuera Marae and helped raise the alarm. Emergency services reached the scene some time aft 5pm and left a guard overnight.
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission found:
"The evidence showed that the accident occurred because the instructor made a decision to carry out or allow unnecessary low flying against Civil Aviation Rules in mountainous terrain, for which she was not trained.
Consequently she unwittingly allowed the aircraft to enter a narrow valley at a height which, given the performance capabilities of the aircraft, it was not possible to turn around or out-climb the rising terrain."
Sources:
1. One dead, another injured in Urewera plane crash
2. Police inspect the wreckage of a light plane that crashed in the Urewera Forest, New Zealand, Saturday, October 27, 2007
3. Pilot killed in Ureweras crash named
4. Heartbreaking loss of experienced pilot
5. 'Swirly' winds before fatal crash - survivor
6. Student has miraculous escape from plane
7. Grieving parents to visit bush site
8. Crash survivor flies on
9. Lack of training led to Urewera crash - TAIC. New Zealand Herald. 22 May 2009
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 January 1986 | ZK-FCR | near Wanganui, Whanganui | |
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Images:
Police inspect the wreckage of a light plane that crashed in the Urewera Forest, New Zealand, Saturday, October 27, 2007. Credit: NZPA
Mt Maunganui 20Oct2007
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Feb-2008 02:09 | sinzman | Added |
| 01-Feb-2008 02:19 | harro | Updated |
| 15-Mar-2009 04:43 | Topaz | Updated |
| 15-Mar-2009 14:01 | Topaz | Updated |
| 21-May-2009 18:26 | XLerate | Updated |
| 21-Jul-2009 03:22 | flyernzl | Updated |
| 23-Sep-2021 15:48 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 08-Oct-2021 21:53 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 31-Jan-2022 02:39 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn] |
| 14-Feb-2022 03:22 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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