Beacon leads to speedy rescue
PA Wellington The value of emergency locator beacons in aircraft was proved on Wednesday evening when a crashed helicopter was found less than four hours after it was first known to be missing, said the Ministry of Transport yesterday. Two Air New Zealand flights flying east of Taupo about 7.30 p.m. heard transmissions from an emergency beacon, the Ministry said. A Ministry of Transport aircraft flying from Gisborne. to Taupo was diverted to the area and confirmed that there was a signal. However it did not have homing equipment to precisely locate the transmitter.
A helicopter and aeroplane took off from Taupo at about 10.40 p.m. with homing equipment. Half an hour later the helicopter found the wreckage of a Hughes 300 helicopter and its two occupants on the
side of a valley in the Kaimanawa Ranges. By 12.50 a.m. both survivors had been taken to hospital in Taupo. “The emergency locator beacon was our first indication that the helicopter had gone down,” said Mr Reg Roberts, deputy director of the Ministiy’s Ground Services Division.
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