Fox Glacier Air Strip

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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