Plane wreck found
PA Fiji A helicopter has found the wreck of a BrittenNorman Islander carrying nine persons, including tw New Zealanders, which disappeared on an i Ner-island flight in Fiji on July 11. The helicopter found the wreck on Saturday afternoon. The bodies of the nine victims were recovered yesterday.
Mr Stephen Yaqona, deputy manager of the plane’s owner, Fiji Air, Ltd, said th- all those in the plane died after it hit a jungle-covered hill six miles north-east of the airstrip at Bua, on the south end of Fiij’s secondlargest island, Vanua , , . , , , lhe dead included two New Zealand tourists, John and Sandy Stevenson, of Gisborne, and the
Australian pilot, Gary Cope, aged 24, of Melbourne. The accident is the first civil aviation disaster in more than 30 years of scheduled air passenger services in Fiji. The twin-engined Islande left Nausori Airport, near Suva, on the morning . . , ~ , . , ot Jul V 11 011 what shou!(1 have been a 40-minute ght to the Bua airstrip.
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