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| Date: | Wednesday 14 December 1960 |
| Time: | c. 0610 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-18A-150 Super Cub |
| Owner/operator: | Aerial Farming of NZ Ltd |
| Registration: | ZK-BKC |
| MSN: | 18-4647 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Taumarunui, King Country -
 New Zealand
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Waldegrave's airstrip |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
The PA-18A agricultural aircraft struck 11,000 volt overhead power transmission lines at 25 feet AGL while making a turn at the end of a topdressing run. Echolands Road, near Taumaranui.
It crashed and the pilot was killed instantly. There was no fire.
The accident investigator attributed the crash to the pilot's inexperience in aerial topdressing and his decision to conduct the operation at an unnecessarily low height.
Pilot Brian Albert Doughty (24). R.I.P.
Sources:
http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 May 1957 | ZK-BKC | Aerial Farming of NZ Ltd | 0 | National Park, King Country | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 21-May-2011 00:19 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 21-May-2011 02:39 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 21-May-2011 19:44 | angels one five | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative, ] |
| 02-Jan-2012 00:34 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Narrative, ] |
| 21-Mar-2016 18:34 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Narrative, ] |
| 12-Feb-2022 03:40 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, Narrative, ] |
| 12-May-2022 20:06 | BEAVERSPOTTER | Updated [Cn, Country, Source, ] |
| 24-May-2022 14:48 | Cobar | Updated [Country, ] |
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