MERCY FLIGHT IN ROUGH CONDITIONS
Trip Takes Twice Normal Time (New Zealand Press Association) BLENHEIM, September 18. A mercy flight into the Marlborough back country in extremely turbulent conditions was successfully accomplished this morning by an Aerial Work (Marlborough), Ltd. Cessna, piloted by Mr L. Gatehouse, and the patient, Mr David Boyd, a station hand at The Bluff station, is now in the Wairau Hospital. Strong north-west winds forced the aircraft to take “the long way round,” and the flight to The Bluff airstrip, which normally takes about 25 minutes, took nearly an hour. Mr Gatehouse then had to circle < the strip for 10 minutes waiting for his chance to touch down. After the patient was aboard, the pilot again had to wait until a momentary drop in the wind gave him the chance to take off. Today’s mercy flight is the fourth that has taken place in the last few days. Flights have been made into the Molesworth, Muller and Middlehurst stations.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29004, 19 September 1959, Page 12
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