Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 30, 2023 11:20:48 GMT 12
Gosh, how awful. To lose one family member in an air crash is bad. To lose a second in another crash a week later is unthinkable!
From The Press, 27 February 1975:
From The Press, 3 March 1975:
From The Press, 27 February 1975:
Helicopter crash
Two men were killed when a helicopter crashed in the White River Valley near Arthur’s Pass on Tuesday evening. The wreckage of the helicopter was spotted by an Air Force Harvard yesterday morning and a ground party recovered the bodies of the two men. The dead men were
Stanley Maurice Scott, aged 29, married, a ranger for the Arthurs Pass National Park, and
Tony Jones, married, of 1A Melton Street, Timaru, a pilot.
The bodies were flown to Klondyke Corner by helicopter and taken to Christchurch in a hearse. They were found near the helicopter wreckage about half a mile from the Carrington Hut. The helicopter was being used to transport men and equipment to the Carrington Hut area for the construction of more huts. The Inspector of Air Accidents is expected to visit the area today. A guard was kept on the wreckage overnight.
Two men were killed when a helicopter crashed in the White River Valley near Arthur’s Pass on Tuesday evening. The wreckage of the helicopter was spotted by an Air Force Harvard yesterday morning and a ground party recovered the bodies of the two men. The dead men were
Stanley Maurice Scott, aged 29, married, a ranger for the Arthurs Pass National Park, and
Tony Jones, married, of 1A Melton Street, Timaru, a pilot.
The bodies were flown to Klondyke Corner by helicopter and taken to Christchurch in a hearse. They were found near the helicopter wreckage about half a mile from the Carrington Hut. The helicopter was being used to transport men and equipment to the Carrington Hut area for the construction of more huts. The Inspector of Air Accidents is expected to visit the area today. A guard was kept on the wreckage overnight.
From The Press, 3 March 1975:
’Copter victim’s son dies in plane crash
(From Our Own Reporter)
TIMARU, March 2.
A boy whose father died in a helicopter crash near Arthur’s Pass last Tuesday was himself killed on Saturday when a top-dressing aircraft crashed near Timaru.
The pilot of the aircraft also died.
According to the Timaru police, the aircraft took off from an airstrip to do a topdressing run, and failed to return.
Another aircraft working in the area and the crashed aircraft’s loaderdriver mounted a search and found the completely wrecked aircraft soon afterwards.
The dead boy was
Martin Roley Jones, aged eight, of 1A Melton Street, Timaru, a son of the late Mr A. M. A. Jones.
The dead pilot was
Arthur Thomas Winstone Rudge, aged 35, married, of Seadown, near Timaru.
The crashed aircraft, a high-wing monoplane de Havilland DHC 2 Beaver owned by Auster Air Services, Ltd, of Timaru (a division of Airwork New Zealand, Ltd) was working from an airstrip on the property of Mr P. H. Boys, The Brothers Road, Cave.
It crashed in fine, clear weather, about 4.15 p.m., on The Brothers range in the Belmont area. Wreckage was strewn about 150 ft. The machine, its hopper empty, went into a gully and ricocheted up the face of a hill, coming to rest 150 ft above the gully floor and 1850 ft below the ridge. It did not catch fire.
It appeared, from an independent reconstruction of the tragedy, that the aircraft, when attempting to lift out on the downward side of a gut feeding into the gully, hit the hill on the other side and disintegrated. The impact was such that the engine rolled down the hill into a creek, and the port and starboard wings were separated from the fuselage. The bodies were found close to the wreckage.
The second aircraft, piloted by Mr R. A. Calder, landed on a small hill in the accident area about 300 yards from the wreckage. It taxied to a halt, and lost a wheel.
(From Our Own Reporter)
TIMARU, March 2.
A boy whose father died in a helicopter crash near Arthur’s Pass last Tuesday was himself killed on Saturday when a top-dressing aircraft crashed near Timaru.
The pilot of the aircraft also died.
According to the Timaru police, the aircraft took off from an airstrip to do a topdressing run, and failed to return.
Another aircraft working in the area and the crashed aircraft’s loaderdriver mounted a search and found the completely wrecked aircraft soon afterwards.
The dead boy was
Martin Roley Jones, aged eight, of 1A Melton Street, Timaru, a son of the late Mr A. M. A. Jones.
The dead pilot was
Arthur Thomas Winstone Rudge, aged 35, married, of Seadown, near Timaru.
The crashed aircraft, a high-wing monoplane de Havilland DHC 2 Beaver owned by Auster Air Services, Ltd, of Timaru (a division of Airwork New Zealand, Ltd) was working from an airstrip on the property of Mr P. H. Boys, The Brothers Road, Cave.
It crashed in fine, clear weather, about 4.15 p.m., on The Brothers range in the Belmont area. Wreckage was strewn about 150 ft. The machine, its hopper empty, went into a gully and ricocheted up the face of a hill, coming to rest 150 ft above the gully floor and 1850 ft below the ridge. It did not catch fire.
It appeared, from an independent reconstruction of the tragedy, that the aircraft, when attempting to lift out on the downward side of a gut feeding into the gully, hit the hill on the other side and disintegrated. The impact was such that the engine rolled down the hill into a creek, and the port and starboard wings were separated from the fuselage. The bodies were found close to the wreckage.
The second aircraft, piloted by Mr R. A. Calder, landed on a small hill in the accident area about 300 yards from the wreckage. It taxied to a halt, and lost a wheel.
