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New Zealand Pilot Missing in Bad Weather

What: New Plymouth Aero Club Cessna 152 en route from North Shore to New Plymouth.
Where: Waikato, near Te Kuiti New Zealand
When: 21 JUL 2009 1930
Who: 1
Why: Missing plane; circumstances largely unknown.

At 7:30, the plane’s distress beacon was heard, and though the pilot’s last communication indicated an anticipated landing at New Plymouth by 7.50 pm, the plane never arrived at its intended destination. Search was dispached in the vicinity of the beacon 35 miles west of Te Kuiti, but weather (tornados forecast), low cloud cover, and difficult terrain proved an obstacle to the search.

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