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On 4 July 1966, an Air New Zealand Douglas DC-8-52 crashed on takeoff from Auckland International Airport on a training flight, killing 2 out of the 5 crew members on board. [1] The crash was the first fatal accident in the history of Air New Zealand and the only accident to date of a commercial airliner in New Zealand.
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 ...
Eagle Airways Flight 2279 (marketed as Air New Zealand Link Flight 2279 by Air New Zealand) [2] was a commuter flight operated by Air National on behalf of Eagle Airways. [3] The flight was the subject of an unsuccessful hijack attempt on 8 February 2008 during which both pilots and a passenger suffered knife wounds.
The aircraft used for Antarctic flights were Air New Zealand's eight McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 trijets. The aircraft on 28 November was registered ZK-NZP. The 182nd DC-10 to be built, and the fourth DC-10 to be introduced by Air New Zealand, ZK-NZP was handed over to the airline on 12 December 1974 at McDonnell Douglas's Long Beach plant.
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 was a scheduled flight from Auckland to Palmerston North. On 9 June 1995, the de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 [1] aircraft crashed into the Tararua Range on approach to Palmerston North. The flight attendant and three passengers died as a result of the crash; the two pilots and 15 passengers survived.
Video shot from a highway showed the plane flying low, before dipping out of view and then exploding in a ball of flames. Horrifying video captured the moment a plane crashed near the Honolulu ...
At the time of the crash, Auckland was experiencing it's heaviest rainfall in 43 years, and the visibility was officially described as "restricted". [5] An Air New Zealand Boeing 737 aircraft which departed 2 minutes after the crash attempted to alert the control tower about the accident. However, the controllers denied that they were alerted.
The crash On Nov. 24, 2021, Jacob flew out of the Lompoc City Airport with video cameras strapped to his Taylorcraft BL-65 airplane for a flight purportedly to Mammoth Lakes, court documents say.