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Queenstown Crash injures Pilot


What: Cessna aircraft en route from Queenstown
Where: Fox Glacier Air Strip
When: Friday.
Who: Pilot and two passengers. The pilot was seriously injured but the two passengers
Why: On landing the plane took out power lines, cutting electricity to parts of the town and smashed into bush at the end of the strip.

Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities: 0
Airplane damage: Unknown
Location: Fox Glacier air strip – New Zealand
Phase: Landing
Nature: Unknown
Departure airport: ? ZQN
Destination airport: FGL
Narrative:
A plane travelling from Queenstown to Fox Glacier crashed off the end of Fox Glacier air strip, apparently cutting power to the township. Two passengers were unhurt while the pilot suffered a punctured lung.

src: http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=22690

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