URGENT FLIGHT TO OAMARU
U.S. Couple Catch Plane Home
An urgent telephone call to the Canterbury Aero Club from a Dunedin tourist agent at 11.54 am. yesterday eventually enabled an American. Mr D. Henry, and his sick wife to catch the Pan American flight from Auckland to the United States last evening.
Fifteen minutes after the call was received the club’s Piper Apache, piloted by Mr D. Antill, took off for Oamaru in bad weather. The Henrys travelled to there by taxi.
A minute after the aircraft landed it was in the air again on the return journey The National Airways Corporation’s 1.40 pm. Viscount flight for Auckland was delayed for 25 minutes until the Apache landed at Christchurch one hour 45 minutes after it left.
The Henrys arrived in Auckland at 3 50 p.m., nearly two hours before the international flight was due to leave.
Yesterday’s flight was the first call to be made on the aero club’s new air-taxi service.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29749, 16 February 1962, Page 8
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