Running flight delay
The 5.40 p.m. DCIO flight from Christchurch to • Auckland yesterday was delayed for three hours because it had left Auckland three hours late earlier in the day for a flight to Sydney and return lb Christchurch. The' chain reaction was started on Saturday evening:when the aircraft was grounded at Christchurch
Airport by a, mechanical fault. Passengers on that flight were taken to/Auckland in a Boeing 737. Once repaired, the DQIO was flown to Auckland to pick up the passengers for Sydney three hours late. - .- Of>\; 13Q/ passengers affected by .last evening’s delay in Chsstchurch,< ■4O were taken./Jon .'earlier flights.
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Press, 11 August 1980, Page 4
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