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12 January 2011, Stratford – About 9:15 a.m. a New Plymouth bound freight train collided with a utility vehicle at Flint Road Level crossing, which was controlled only by stop signs, killing one person and seriously injuring two others in the vehicle. This was the fifth crash, and second fatality, at this crossing since 1992.
The crash and subsequent inquiry resulted in major changes in Air New Zealand's management. 257 (all) 0 0 0 TE24: 19 May 1987 Boeing 747-200: Nadi International Airport, Fiji During the first of Fiji's coups d'état that year, Air New Zealand Flight 24, flying from Tokyo Narita to Auckland via Nadi, was hijacked at Nadi International Airport ...
The building collapsed in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, with only the north shear wall that included the lift shaft left still standing. [16] One survivor was quoted as running out of the ground floor during the shaking. When she had reached the other side of the 14-metre-wide (46 ft) road, she looked back and "the building was down."
A spokeswoman for Christchurch Airport said the airport's two runways were currently closed but the terminal remained open. (Reporting by Lucy Craymer; Editing by Chris Reese) Show comments
The cause is officially undetermined, but it is now known the Early Valley Road fire was caused by an electrical fault, while the Summit Road fire was deliberately lit. [ 3 ] On 14 February 2024 a similar fire started in the same area, triggering a state of emergency, a major deployment of firefighting helicopters, and evacuations of nearby ...
Christchurch Hospital is run by the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. It is located in Fairmile in Christchurch , Dorset , England. The hospital was managed by The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust until the merger with Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2020.
The cliffs of Peacock's Gallop were separated from the road to Sumner by shipping containers stacked two high (photo 2012).. An earthquake occurred in Christchurch on 14 February 2016 at 1:13 p.m. local time (00:13 UTC) and initially recorded as 5.9 [4] on the Richter scale, but subsequently reviewed as 5.7. [5]
1943 RNZAF Catalina crash air accident 5 Jun 1943: south of Fiji: 14 [79] [80] Pan Am Flight 806: air accident 30 Jan 1974: Pago Pago, American Samoa: Only New Zealand deaths listed 12 [81] 1945 RNZAF Catalina crash air accident 27 Jan 1945: off Beqa, Fiji 10 [82] Bere Ferrers rail accident, train hit NZ troops on tracks by platform train ...