A fatal aircraft collision north of Wellington may have been prevented if a safety recommendation made 12 years earlier had been put in place, the chief crash investigator says.
A team of Army medics is scheduled to fly to Samoa today to join a civilian medical team that left New Zealand on an Air Force Hercules late last night as the death toll from the tsunami rises.
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Made of Wood & Wire C. J. deZoete
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Fletcher FU24 going through it's paces Operation Wise Owl, Whakatane C. G. Horwitz
Careful you birdbrains ! CT4 aerobatics @ Whakatane's 'Wise Owl' day C. G. Horwitz
Some days just don't go as planned and the crew of this Germania Airlines Boeing 737 was having one of those days on Wednesday. The Daily Mail says 200 starlings were ingested by the right engine of the aircraft as it took off from Dusseldorf bound to Kosovo.
