Three hurt in copter crash
PA Auckland Two Australian girls injured in a helicopter crash at Ardmore Airport yesterday morning will take to the air again within the next few days on a flight home. The girls, Veronica Christine Good, and Kathy Irene Russell, both aged 19. were passengers in a Marine Helicoptres, Ltd. machine which crashed into a paddock a few hundred metres short of the airport. Neither they nor the pilot. Mr B. Gregory, aged 43. of Maungatoroto, was seriously injured in the crash, which left the $73,000 aircraft a crumpled wreck. Both the girls and the pilot were reluctant to talk
i about the accident but the managing director of the ■firm, Mr B. C. Barrow, one of the first on the scene, said the helicopter was coming back from Maungatoroto for routine servicing when the accident occurred. The engine of the Hughes 300 helicopter failed as it was approaching the runway. The aircraft, which is .usually used for agricultural spraying, crashed into a paddock from about 20 metres up. On impact it gouged a hole in the ground, then bounced forward through a fence before coming to rest. Rescuers found the three people stunned on the! ground. .
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