Date:	Sunday 16 June 2019
Time:	13:48
Type:	Cessna 185A Skywagon
Owner/operator:	Skydive Wellington (owner: Sky Sports NZ Ltd)
Registration:	ZK-CBY
MSN:	185-0420
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Masterton Aerodrome, Wairarapa -   New Zealand
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Parachuting
Departure airport:	Masterton Airport (MRO/NZMS)
Destination airport:	Masterton Airport (MRO/NZMS)
Investigating agency:	TAIC
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
A Cessna 185A Skywagon (ZK-CBY) skydiving plane and a Tecnam P2002-JF (ZK-WAK) crashed following a mid-air collision while on approach to the Hood Aerodome in Masterton, New Zealand. Both aircraft were consumed by the post crash fire and the sole pilot on board each aircraft was fatally injured.

The pilot of ZK-CBY was joining the non-standard right-hand for runway 06L, as this was how they had been instructed to join. The pilot of ZK-CBY, as the joining aircraft, needed to give way to ZK-WAK, but did not see it in time to avoid the collision. The non-standard join was at variance with Civil Aviation Rules (CARs), but had become an accepted practice at the aerodrome.

Both aeroplanes were approaching the runways at the same time. The aerodrome chart informed pilots that ‘simultaneous operations’ were prohibited. However, there was no definition of what ‘simultaneous operations’ were, and as a result there were a range of interpretations.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113521858/emergency-services-on-way-to-scene-after-two-planes-crash-in-masterton
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12240888
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/392165/two-aircraft-crash-in-masterton-at-least-one-injured
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/06/two-light-aircraft-crash-near-masterton.html
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/both-pilots-killed-after-two-light-aircraft-collide-mid-air-in-carterton?auto=0&fbclid=IwAR0Vlszz-oorAVfKVLQadjjZgAbYZq15z0CqL8Rc3i5VyMDo1OGtiyk2bhI
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/both-pilots-killed-after-two-light-aircraft-collide-mid-air-in-masterton
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/six-people-dead-in-masterton-mid-air-plane-crash-police-confirm
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/bodies-both-pilots-died-in-mid-air-crash-removed-mangled-wreckage-near-masterton
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https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/7352083 (photo)
https://taic.org.nz/inquiry/ao-2019-006

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


28 February 1965	ZK-CBY	Rural Aviation (1963) Ltd	0	Eketahuna, Wairarapa		min
11 January 1968	ZK-CBY	Tourist Air Travel Ltd		Cattle Flat, Southland		unk
2 February 1973	ZK-CBY	Mount Cook Air Services Ltd		Mount Cook, Canterbury		unk
11 August 1982	ZK-CBY	Mount Cook Group Ltd		Tasman Glacier, Mount Cook NP		unk
11 October 2003	ZK-CBY		0	Masterton Ad		min

Hood airfield, Masterton, 7Jan2012.

New Zealand - The bodies of two pilots who died yesterday in a mid-air plane crash have now both been removed from the scene of the wreckage in Masterton.
ASN:https://t.co/NNZZ6eLpJShttps://t.co/slI7TisKvB
Press: https://t.co/DfTeNyNZ3y via @1NewsNZ pic.twitter.com/VjUugamKrb

— PLANES OF LEGEND (@PlanesOfLegend) 17 juin 2019

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
16-Jun-2019 00:18	Captain Adam	Added
16-Jun-2019 00:28	Captain Adam	Updated [Operator, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
16-Jun-2019 01:14	RobertMB	Updated [Aircraft type, ]
16-Jun-2019 01:24	Captain Adam	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
16-Jun-2019 01:25	RobertMB	Updated [Destination airport, ]
16-Jun-2019 03:27	RobertMB	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
16-Jun-2019 05:13	gerard57	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative, ]
16-Jun-2019 05:22	gerard57	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative, ]
16-Jun-2019 13:16	Iceman 29	Updated [Source, Embed code, ]
17-Jun-2019 09:26	Iceman 29	Updated [Source, Embed code, ]
17-Jun-2019 09:32	Iceman 29	Updated [Embed code, ]
22-Jun-2019 05:04	Flyernzl	Updated [Photo, ]
08-Aug-2020 02:59	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
06-Feb-2022 06:39	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
03-Nov-2022 06:52	harro	Updated [Departure airport, Embed code, Narrative, Accident report, ]