ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 46417
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Date: | Friday 5 December 2003 |
Time: | 16:30 |
Type: | Cessna 172N Skyhawk II |
Owner/operator: | |
Registration: | ZK-EOA |
MSN: | 172-71497 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Lake Luna, Otago -
New Zealand
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The National Rescue Coordination Centre was notified on the late afternoon of Friday 5 December 2003 that the aircraft had not returned to Queenstown after a mountain flying training flight. A local search was initiated, and the wreckage of the aircraft was found in steep and mountainous terrain in the Twenty Five Mile Creek watershed, some 2 km east of Lake Luna, at about 1935 hours. The pilot under instruction, although seriously injured, survived, but the instructor sustained fatal injuries in the accident.
Sources:
CAA NZ Occurrence reference 03/3531.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Nov-2008 10:35 |
ASN archive |
Added |
17-Feb-2022 19:31 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location, Source] |
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