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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. An aircraft refueller entered the Boeing 747-200's cockpit and held the captain, first officer and flight engineer hostage for six hours ...
Airwork Flight 23 was a New Zealand Post cargo flight between Auckland International Airport (AKL/NZAA) and Woodbourne Airport (BHE/NZWB) that disintegrated on 3 May 2005. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] History
Auckland Airport [5] (IATA: AKL, ICAO: NZAA) is an international airport serving Auckland, the most populous city of New Zealand. It is the largest and busiest airport in the country , with over 16 million passengers served in the year ended August 2023. [ 6 ]
Nearly 22.4 pounds of methamphetamine were found wrapped as Christmas presents in a Canadian woman's carry-on bag at the Auckland International Airport in New Zealand on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024.
These scanners were first introduced at Auckland for international flights in June 2019 and at Dunedin for domestic flights in August 2019. Since then, they have been progressively rolled-out across all the airports to ensure compliance with international standards and detect aviation security threats that evade traditional screening methods.
LATAM Airlines Flight 800 departed from Sydney Airport at 11:44 AEDT , climbing to cruise at flight level 410 (approximately 41,000 ft or 12,500 m). [8] [4] While the flight was over the Tasman Sea, around two hours into the flight and one hour away from Auckland, the aircraft dropped suddenly. In a few seconds, the plane lost over 300 ft (90 m ...
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.
Mangere Aerodrome, named after a nearby suburb, was the original home of the Auckland Aero Club. It is now the site of Auckland Airport . Mangere Aerodrome's claim to fame was as the arrival point for New Zealand aviator, and aeroclub member, Jean Batten 's solo flight from the United Kingdom in 1936.