FOG CLOSES AIRPORT
Electra Diverted To Wellington
Fog and low cloud closed Christchurch airport for all landings and DC3 departures last evening.
A Tasman Empire Airways Electra, which was due soon after 6 p.m., was diverted to Wellington. It is expected to arrive art Christchurch art 9.20 a.m. today. The aircraft will leave for Melbourne at 10.15 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. Fifty-seven passengers aboard the Electra, and passengers booked on two cancelled National Airways Corporation flights from Wellington, travelled in the irrterisland steamer during the night. A DC3 flight to Wellington was also cancelled.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30240, 19 September 1963, Page 17
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