ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336640
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Date: | Monday 9 August 1948 |
Time: | 08:45 |
Type: | Douglas C-47B-30-DK (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | New Zealand National Airways Corporation - NAC |
Registration: | ZK-AOE |
MSN: | 33131/16383 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Rununder Point -
New Zealand
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Blenheim-Woodbourne Airport (BHE/NZWB) |
Destination airport: | Paraparaumu Airport (PPQ/NZPP) |
Narrative:Takeoff from Woodbourne AFB (BHE) was at 08:30 local time, and at 08:38 the pilot reported they were overhead the Wairau river mouth and tracking for Paraparaumu (PPQ). A few minutes later the aircraft crashed at Rununder Point, just to the north-east of Port Underwood on the South Island coast.
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photo (c) Peter Lewis; Palmerston North Airport (PMR/NZPM); 16 October 1947
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