| 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 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Rununder Point -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Blenheim-Woodbourne Airport (BHE/NZWB) |
| Paraparaumu Airport (PPQ/NZPP) |
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.
Sources:
Location
Images:
photo (c) Peter Lewis; Palmerston North Airport (PMR/NZPM); 16 October 1947
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