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Post by ox on Sept 27, 2009 10:24:00 GMT 12
Pretty sure it was Fish - although to be fair he didn't stack it, fuel pump drive sheared and engine quit at lowish level - not much he could do except pick a spot to hit.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 27, 2009 14:22:29 GMT 12
I remember Fish telling me he had been assigned to fly Sir David Attenborough and his BBC crew around the Antarctic continent when they were filming Life of Earth. At one point they were setting up for a shoot and Fish didn't realise they were about to roll camera, and was talking away to someone. He was interupted by Sir David yelling "F*ck up Fish!!" All in good humour of course. He was stunned to hear such language from such a TV legend, and so proud to have been the recipient of it. ;D
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Post by Peter Lewis on Sept 27, 2009 17:30:33 GMT 12
For those not up with the play here, we're discussing Flt Lt Fesche. Yes he did prang NZ3813, overturned in f/l Ngamatea Swamp, near Waiouru Military Camp helipad, after engine failed 31Mar95.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 27, 2009 20:21:30 GMT 12
Is Fish still in the mob?
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Post by tbf25o4 on Sept 28, 2009 8:05:50 GMT 12
I understand from media contacts that a second huey has been "stored" any idea of serial number?
Paul
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Post by chewy on Sept 28, 2009 19:15:23 GMT 12
I used to baby sit Tony Fesche when he was very small. When he went to to 3sqn Ron Cole was there and he was also another one of his baby sitters. I am looking after Frank Fesche's car at the moment. Tony is flying for Cathe Pacific i believe at the moment.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 28, 2009 22:07:38 GMT 12
Thanks Chewy.
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Post by beagle on Sept 29, 2009 8:44:56 GMT 12
Darren Goodwin whom I joined up with was the chopper crewman and was the most injured in the crash. If it had not been for his flying helmet being properly fitted he would not be here today. I believe he ended up with his head between the fuselage and the ground.
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Post by beagle on Sept 29, 2009 8:48:23 GMT 12
From memory there were 2 batches initially. 3801-3805 were Ds, the rest were Hs A few have been out of service for longish periods while being rebuilt. 3803 after crashing on Mount Cook, 3807 & 3814 after a mid air in Oz, 3809 after Rangi parked it upside down in a hedge at Kaipara. I think they got one out of the desert after Fish stacked 3813 at Waiouru. One crashed on the Kaipara sand dunes in the early seventies ?? Did all lose their lives in the that or just the creman. Pretty sure the crewman was killed. But apart from unintended rests, they all flew all the time.
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Post by ox on Sept 29, 2009 10:50:29 GMT 12
One crashed on the Kaipara sand dunes in the early seventies ?? Did all lose their lives in the that or just the creman. Pretty sure the crewman was killed. 3810 in 1970. There were 3 killed - not sure who they were. 3815 was the replacement frame for 3810. I was trying to remember the crewmans name - I could picture him and remember him, but not his name. Can't remember who the copilot was.
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Post by NZ1009 on Sept 29, 2009 12:33:42 GMT 12
From ADF Serials:
NZ3810 : Delivered between July and October 1970. Operated by No. 3 Squadron RNZAF. Crashed in sandhills near Kaipara Harbour during tactical exercise just after noon on 27 April 1972. The helicopter had struck a bank with it's main rotor and then cartwheeled over another 70 foot high bank. Flight Lieutenant Ross Masters, Sergeant Malcolm Bell and Sergeant Anthony Perkin killed and aircraft written off.
I went to school (Burnside High, Christchurch) with Tony Perkins.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 29, 2009 17:04:32 GMT 12
"It was the first air force tragedy since World War Two"
Eh? So those aircrew members who died in Mustangs, Mosquitoes and Vampires, Harvards, Devons and Dakotas, and all the rest between WWII and 1972 were not tragedies?
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Post by phil82 on Sept 29, 2009 18:08:25 GMT 12
"It was the first air force tragedy since World War Two" Eh? So those aircrew members who died in Mustangs, Mosquitoes and Vampires, Harvards, Devons and Dakotas, and all the rest between WWII and 1972 were not tragedies? How many were in the Devon that crashed into a hill in Marlborough? 1967/68? I think there were at least three. It is of course, immaterial, because whover wrote that didn't understand the content!
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Post by camtech on Sept 29, 2009 19:41:53 GMT 12
Totally agree - the ignorance of the press is unbelievable at times. Dont forget the Consul, Catalinas, Bristol Freighter and Canberra losses.
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Post by shorty on Sept 29, 2009 20:17:32 GMT 12
The Devon crash was Lindis Pass 1971
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 30, 2009 12:30:23 GMT 12
Beside the point of that innaccuracy, it is nice that these airmen are being remembered and timely that the article should come up just as the crash was being discussed.
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Post by davekiwi on Sept 30, 2009 13:55:25 GMT 12
Quote:
Flight Lieutenant Ross Masters, Sergeant Malcolm Bell and Sergeant Anthony Perkin killed and aircraft written off
end quote
Malcolm Bell's son was also an Avionics Tech in the RNZAF, worked with him at Wigram in the early 90's. Seem to recall that he went to a dedication at the RNZAF Museum for RNZAF members who had lost their lives in service. (A memorial wall ? ... been a very long time since I have been to the museum at Wigram).
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 30, 2009 14:40:34 GMT 12
Yes, the Memorial Wall in the Atrium opened with a special ceremony at that time.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 30, 2009 14:43:52 GMT 12
That Iroquois crash at Kaipara, I was told in 1990 when I was based at Whenuapai that the first anyone in the RNZAF knew of the crash was it was announced on 1ZB radio station news update. It was only then that a search was mounted, according to the person who told me. Does anyone know if that is true?
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Post by chewy on Sept 30, 2009 15:53:52 GMT 12
There was a photograph taken at the crash site of Fesche's crash showing a helmet trapped under the skid. It was used as a poster for safety equipment in the RNZAF. I wonder who remembers it.
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