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Wreckage Of Plane (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, Feb. 27. An aerial search of the Copeland river area to verify the reported sighting of the wreckage of an aircraft will not be made for several days because of bad weather. A Hokitika man, Mr J. Thompson, and Mr R. Gee, of Blenheim, reported the sighting about 400 feet above the bushline in mountainous country near the river. The pilot of the plane in which Messrs Thompson and Gee were passengers, Captain B. Waugh, manager-pilot of West Coast Airways, did not see the wreckage. “They yelled out to me to look but I didn’t hear them over the noise of the engines,” he said. The wreckage may be the De Havilland Dragonfly,
which was lost between Christchurch and Milford on February 12, 1962. It was piloted by Captain B. Chadwick and was carrying four passengers, all Australians. It was not found in spite of extensive searches. Mr Thompson said the object appeared to be an aircraft with its port wing missing. Otherwise it seemed to be in one piece.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 1
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