AIRPORT OPENS
Closed For 24 Hours Only three National Airways flights bad to be cancelled yesterday morning when Christchurch airport opened again after fog had closed it for 24 hours. The airport was opened for landings at 8.40 a.m. Before then a Viscount flight from the North Island, a DC3 flight from Timaru, and a flight from Christchurch to Wellington were cancelled. Four special flights left Christchurch and three arrived to clear the previous day’s backlog and those from the morning's cancelled flight to Wellington. An Air New Zealand DCB, which should have arrived at Christchurch from Sydney bn Tuesday afternoon, but which was diverted to Auckland, landed at 11.25 a.m. yesterday. It took off again for Australia at 12.50 p.m. A United States Starlifter transport jet, which arrived at 5.30 a.m., circled the airport for two hours before diverting to Auckland. It returned to land at about noon.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31728, 11 July 1968, Page 1
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