23 June 2023, Issue 1165
Bringing her home...
It’s New Zealand’s worst internal air disaster – 23 people dead. Now, 60 years on, some of the wreckage of the NAC DC-3, Flight 441 from Auckland to Tauranga, has been salvaged
from a ravine high on the Kaimai Range. It will be incorporated in a commemorative display to be dedicated at Classic Flyers Museum at Tauranga Airport on the 60th anniversary of the
disaster on Monday, July 3. Just a week ago, the rear wheel was lifted from the crash site by helicopter, and the museum salvage team plans to return soon to the crash scene to recover one of the DC-3’s
two engines, which has lain there for six decades. Classic Flyers volunteer Ian Swainson and the CEO Andrew Gormlie are pictured with the prize. Read the full story is on pages 6-7. Composite photo: Bob Tulloch.
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