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Erebus Disaster: Lookout – official TV New Zealand YouTube site with programme on the Royal Commission enquiry into the crash. [dead link ] Erebus Memorial: Erebus Memorial Names Archived 16 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine – official New Zealand Ministry for Culture & Heritage memorial site. BBC News: The plane crash that changed ...
There is a long history of shipwrecks and vessels capsizing or being lost in the seas around the Southland Region of New Zealand. [1] The worst incident was on 29 April 1881, when the SS Tararua struck Otara reef 13 km (8.1 mi) off Waipapa Point. [2] [3] [4] Of the ship's 151 passengers, only 20 survived.
The Tangiwai disaster was a deadly railway accident that occurred at 10:21 p.m. on 24 December 1953, when a railway bridge over the Whangaehu River collapsed beneath an express passenger train at Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand.
This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, ... 1966 Air New Zealand DC-8 crash: air accident 4 Jul 1966: near Auckland Airport: 2 Air New Zealand Flight 4374:
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.
Shipwrecks along the coastlines of the islands of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Danger Ahead – New Zealand Railway Accidents in the Modern Era. Sydney and Wellington: IPL Publishing Group. ISBN 0-908876-74-2. Heine, Richard W. (2000). Semaphore to CTC: Signalling and train working in New Zealand, 1863-1993. Wellington: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society. ISBN 0-908573-76-6. Hoy, D G (1970). Rails out of the Capital ...
The Snelling family, who owned a farm nearby and had heard the accident, were the first to reach the wreckage. [6] [7] Additionally, a party of 5 members from the Auckland District Māori Council, who had also been travelling on the road, assisted with the initial response.