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Investigating the wreckage

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Investigating the wreckage

Officials investigate a wrecked Ansett Dash 8 on a fog-shrouded hillside in the Tararua Range. The plane crashed on 9 June 1995 as it descended to Palmerston North airport. Miraculously, only four people were killed, although more were seriously injured.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1995/1752/11

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Nancy Swarbrick, Air crashes – Causes and consequences, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6537/investigating-the-wreckage (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009.