Date:	Thursday 1 November 1990
Time:	evening
Type:	Hughes 369D
Owner/operator:	Thompson Syndicate
Registration:	ZK-HOP
MSN:	300738D
Year of manufacture:	1980
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Lake Widgeon, Fiordland NP -   New Zealand
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Te Anau
Destination airport:
Investigating agency:	TAIC
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
On 01-11-1990, the helicopter was deer hunting but failed to return. The wreckage was found at the tree line below a steep slope, 4 km east of Lake Widgeon, Longburn Valley, Fiordland Park: the main rotor blades had made a gouge mark further up the slope. The accident threw the shooter from the aircraft, the pilot was found lying beside it. Both sustained fatal injuries.

1. TAIC Investigation 90-004T
2. http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2012/06/zk-hof-and-hop.html

Footage of ZK-HOP on a deer-hunting sortie in 1984

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Apr-2009 01:24	XLerate	Added
21-Aug-2016 00:58	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Phase, Damage, Narrative, ]
21-Aug-2016 01:07	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ]
04-Feb-2022 22:34	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
05-Feb-2022 01:01	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]