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Post by delticman on Jan 7, 2015 16:35:18 GMT 12
Keep up chaps..................the accident victim is ZK-SDT which started out as ZK-JAD, then ZK-XLG then VH-NZJ before becoming SDT.
The Cresco in the photo started as ZK-JOH then VH-MOS, returned to be ZK-SDT and then got a hopper and became ZK-TPW. It's always been pink.
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Post by Bruce on Jan 7, 2015 16:46:33 GMT 12
The various comments from the ignorant masses on facebook and other social media is making my head hurt!....  |
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Post by bounce on Jan 7, 2015 17:32:48 GMT 12
Didn't someone say that NZ accidents seem to come in threes? Well I never...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2015 17:43:50 GMT 12
I laughed out loud when I saw Stuff say Skydive Taupo wouldn't comment to them, when is just read ST comment to the Herald! Stuff must be desperate for comment...when was the last time the mayor of an accident location was interviewed?!
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Post by delticman on Jan 7, 2015 17:50:38 GMT 12
Thinking of Cessnas, the Wanganui Chronicle published an apology regarding the photo of John Harding and his Cessna. They have now informed readers the aircraft was a Pacific Aerospace 08-600 Cresco.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 7, 2015 19:07:40 GMT 12
At Taupo, 10Mar2007  This is actually ZK-SDT/1, Cresco. ZK-SDT/2 750XL at Taupo 14Jan2011  Just to add clarification, ZK-SDT/1 was a Cresco, and became ZK-TPW in 2009. |
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Post by planecrazy on Jan 7, 2015 19:24:01 GMT 12
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jan 7, 2015 21:14:12 GMT 12
Radio NZ also stated an expert reckons the aircraft can be recovered so it can't be in the deep bits of the lake.[/quote] There is precedent! Same place almost exactly, and it was a Cessna. Perhaps someone should tell Stuff... rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/16571/zk-ckx-submarine-cessna |
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Post by delticman on Jan 7, 2015 21:56:15 GMT 12
That nice pink plane on the grass at Taupo is the Cresco.
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Post by mumbles on Jan 7, 2015 22:01:35 GMT 12
At Taupo, 10Mar2007 This is actually ZK-SDT/2. Just to add clarification, ZK-SDT/1 was a Cresco, and became ZK-TPW in 2009. Just remembered I actually saw this aircraft airborne a little over a week ago as I was driving into Taupo. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 7, 2015 22:03:24 GMT 12
Radio NZ News just said they will make an attempt to recover the aircraft tomorrow.
Also they said the experienced pilot has only been with the company a few days. Poor bloke.
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 8, 2015 6:07:55 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 8, 2015 7:54:53 GMT 12
That nice pink plane on the grass at Taupo is the Cresco. Yes, my error. Photo of ZK-SDT/2 750XL added. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2015 11:04:39 GMT 12
Lake Taupo plane plunge: Pilot's skydive was his firstPublished: 11:40AM Thursday January 08, 2015 Source: ONE News A pilot who is used to being the only one not jumping out of a plane was forced into his first skydive yesterday. All 13 people on board the skydiving plane jumped to safety moments before it nosedived into Lake Taupo. When the engine unexpectedly stopped mid-air, the pilot instructed his six crew and six passengers to exit the aircraft. The pilot followed soon after, diving out of a plane for the first time. "He's no parachutist, pilots tend not to want to jump out of aeroplanes so he had his first skydive and he did well," Skydive Taupo's chief executive Roy Clements told Radio NZ this morning. Mr Clements has praised all who were onboard, saying "they're all heroes in my eyes". "I woke up this morning and just started reliving the experience and how the staff so calmly exited the aircraft." Skydive Taupo says it has offered the holidaymakers caught up in the crash a free skydive. Mr Clements says business will be back to usual tomorrow once a new plane has been leased. "Instructors want to get back in the air and jump straight away." A police dive squad has arrived at the scene where the plane hit the water. The squad is analysing the wreckage and taking evidence. The divers are working on behalf of the Transport Accident Investigation Commission. The wreckage is expected to be removed by helicopters later today. Staff and passengers onboard the abandoned plane will be interviewed by TAIC investigators today. tvnz.co.nz/national-news/lake-taupo-plane-plunge-pilot-s-skydive-his-first-6215934
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2015 11:10:48 GMT 12
Plane crash pilot calls boss from blackberry bushFLORENCE KERR Last updated 11:58, January 8 2015 The pilot of the light plane that crashed into Lake Taupo yesterday called his boss from the blackberry bush he landed in after jumping from the aircraft. The bright-pink plane crashed 200 metres from shore at Rotongaio Bay, on State Highway 1 south of Taupo, about 12.15pm, sinking in 3.5m of water. None of the 13 onboard the Pacific Aerospace 750XL plane who were forced to parachute for their lives – the pilot, six crew members and six passengers – was injured. Skydive Taupo director Roy Clements learnt that everyone onboard was alive when he received the call from the pilot. "Pretty much the time when the pilot phoned me from the blackberry bushes to say that he's all right and he was pretty sure the other guys were all right as well." Clements said the pilot would take a few days off before returning to work, while the six instructors opted to return to work today. He said the skydiving employees were a bit quieter than usual. "They have a lot of thoughts going on," he said. "They wanted to be together, and that's a good way of discussing what's happened and talking through the situation." www.stuff.co.nz/national/64754138/plane-crash-pilot-calls-boss-from-blackberry-bush
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Post by The Red Baron on Jan 8, 2015 11:26:57 GMT 12
I'm guessing everyone on board is elligible to join the Caterpillar Cub too... Caterpillar Club. |
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Jan 8, 2015 11:31:11 GMT 12
Ha! Wonder if his phone was an IPhone, a Galaxy or a Blackberry  Stuff is saying it's only in 3.5M of water so I imagine recovery will be pretty straightforward. I'm very curious to know what happened, in these days of gas turbines its very rare to hear of engine failures so I await the official findings with interest. Great that all survived this and are fit & well. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2015 12:56:54 GMT 12
There's quite an industry now for recovering aeroplanes from water in NZ, that's the third in a few weeks.
Red Baron, sadly the Caterpillar Club no longer exists.
One eyewitness I saw on TV last night said there was an explosion in the air then he saw everyone jump out. Would the engine actually "explode"?
I also saw that numpty newsreader on TV1, Greg whoever he is, state in a headline update that "13 parachutists plummeted" from the plane. The 13 should form a club and get a t-shirt, 'The Plummeteers".
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Post by shorty on Jan 8, 2015 13:04:38 GMT 12
Had a email from a friend in Alabama and it made the news over there as well
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Post by scrooge on Jan 8, 2015 14:00:12 GMT 12
If you read the Caterpillar Club wiki, it would appear only the pilot would qualify as the intent of the parachutists was always to jump."...They did not qualify because it had been their original intention to jump from the plane. The pilot, however, was admitted to the club."
Although, I am quoting from wiki, so who really knows?
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