I just turned Teletext on and read this:
“Plane Crashes off Kaiaua coast
Rescue services are scouring the Firth of Thames after a twin seater training jet crashed on Friday morning.
One body has already been found in the wreckage of the Fouga, which crashed abvout 100 metres off the coast near Kaiaua. Searchers are looking for a second person.
The Fouga jet is a 50-year-old plane and is regularly seen in New Zealand during warbird airshows.”
Very sad indeed. For people outside of New Zealand, Kaiaua is pronounced like Kie (as in pie)-ah-wa
By: Mark9 - 19th March 2004 at 13:09
Very sad indeed:( Anna
By: trumper - 19th March 2004 at 13:07
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dave Homewood
[B]
Originally posted by trumper
🙁 🙁 Oh gawd not already,i know it’s the middle of the year over there but it seems too early from hereErrrr, what? It is not the middle of the year in New Zealand, it is March. We’re only half a day ahead of Britain you know.
😉
Dave
Well,sorry i meant you are in your summer period ,we are still in our winter crawling slooooowly towards spring.Sorry ,i knew what i meant LOL 😉
By: Dave Homewood - 19th March 2004 at 13:04
[QUOTE]Originally posted by trumper
[B]:( 🙁 Oh gawd not already,i know it’s the middle of the year over there but it seems too early from here
Errrr, what? It is not the middle of the year in New Zealand, it is March. We’re only half a day ahead of Britain you know.
😉
Dave
By: trumper - 19th March 2004 at 12:56
🙁 🙁 Oh gawd not already,i know it’s the middle of the year over there but it seems too early from here,condolensces from us all .
Was it fitted with ejector seats
By: Ashley - 19th March 2004 at 12:38
Very sad to hear this 🙁 My condolences to the family and friends of the two on board.
By: Chipmunk Carol - 19th March 2004 at 12:35
From Associated Press Newswires
Former Olympic gold medal winner dies in plane crash
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Two people, including former Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Chris Timms, were killed Friday when a vintage twin-seat jet they were flying crashed on New Zealand’s North Island.
New Zealand television network TV3, citing police sources, identified one of the victims as Timms, 56, who won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in the Tornado class with Rex Sellars and silver in the same class four years later in Seoul, South Korea.
The other man on board the jet was named by police as Kerry Campbell, 57, chief executive of Ardmore Airport, where the plane was based.
The New Zealand Warbirds Association, which preserves and flies old military planes, said the aircraft was a Fouga Magister, a French training jet.
Ambulance staff at the scene said both were killed on impact.
The plane hit mud flats about 100 meters (yards) from the shore of the river Thames at Kaiaua, a small rural settlement nearly 600 kilometers (375 miles) north of the capital, Wellington.
By: whalebone - 19th March 2004 at 10:28
Oh what terrible news, my thoughts are with the families of their loved ones.
By: turbo_NZ - 19th March 2004 at 10:15
Yes I saw the news, apparently it flew upwards into the clouds, and then was seen spiralling vertically after a loud bang but with the engines still running…
The other passenger was an experienced ex-Skyhawk pilot.
Apparently .hit the mudflats at high velocity
🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
By: Moggy C - 19th March 2004 at 08:01
Horrid news. Very sad indeed.
Moggy
By: Dave Homewood - 19th March 2004 at 05:06
I just saw on One News that one of the pilots was Christopher Timms, a former Olypmic Gold Medallist in yachting – so a great loss to sport as well as aviation.:(
The other pilot has not yet been named.
Also, I flicked over to TV3 and caught a few second of the end of their item on the crash, and it showed Ray Hanna with his P40, which was in a Chinese scheme (yuck!!). Apparently the Fouga was practising for an airshow in Taupo this weekend, so it looks as if maybe Ray will be their? Anyone else se TV3’s item? Must watch the late news.
Cheers
Dave
By: turbo_NZ - 19th March 2004 at 04:44
Originally posted by Dave Homewood
As far as the website for WoW 04 goes it was.
http://www.warbirdsoverwanaka.com/🙁
make that a double 🙁 🙁
A real tragic loss indeed, not only for the NZ Warbird movement , but for the families of the 2 crew members
By: Dave Homewood - 19th March 2004 at 04:23
Originally posted by turbo_NZ
I was always amazed at how much louder the Magister was in relation to the Vampire.
Was a beautiful jet and was very graceful in the air.Dave, was it going to be featured at Wanaka ?
As far as the website for WoW 04 goes it was.
http://www.warbirdsoverwanaka.com/
🙁
By: turbo_NZ - 19th March 2004 at 02:51
I was always amazed at how much louder the Magister was in relation to the Vampire.
Was a beautiful jet and was very graceful in the air.
Dave, was it going to be featured at Wanaka ?
By: Kye - 19th March 2004 at 02:48
Sad news indeed. I have to admit though when i read the thread title i thought was going to see that the Corsair, P40 or La9 had crashed, not that they should cast a side this tragic event 🙁
By: turbo_NZ - 19th March 2004 at 02:46
oh no !!!
I’ve regularily seen that jet at airshows. Very impressive doing formation aerobatics with the Vampires
Really sad day:(
Sentiments to the families involved.
By: Chris Broad - 19th March 2004 at 01:12
that is sad news.:(
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th March 2004 at 00:48
Oh no… 🙁 My heart goes out to the families… 🙁
By: Ant.H - 19th March 2004 at 00:35
Tragic news 🙁
By: Snapper - 19th March 2004 at 00:15
Sorry to hear that.
By: Dave Homewood - 18th March 2004 at 23:42
It’s worse, both people died. See more here:
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3882-3187677,00.html
Dave
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