ELECTRA IN TROUBLE
Plane Returns To Auckland (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 1. Forty minutes out from Whenuapai on Saturday night a Nandibound Tasman Empire Airways Electra had to jettison 16,0001 b of fuel into the ocean and turn back to Auckland. Sixty-seven passengers were aboard. Because of mechanical trouble the nose wheel of the undercarriage could not be raised, said a T.E.A.L. spokesman today. The regulations required that aircraft must turn back when such a defect occurred. He said the defect was not serious.
The fuel was jettisoned so that when the aircraft landed at Whenuapai it would weigh 95,5001 b —the regulation landing weight This was a routine precaution as also was the attendance of fire trucks when the plane landed. The plane landed at Whenuapai at 7.55 p.m., the wheel was repaired, and the aircraft was about to leave at 9.15 p.m. when a radio defect was discovered. It was 10.25 p.m.—nearly four hours after the original departure time—before the plane was airborne again. At Nandi 34 of the passengers transferred to a Qantas Boeing for North America and Europe.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29193, 2 May 1960, Page 10
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