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Police Release Names Of Glacier Crash Victims
Police have released the names of the nine people killed in yesterday's plane crash at Fox Glacier. The accident happened at 1.15pm when the plane, carrying a party of skydivers and tourists, crashed at the end of the runway at Fox Glacier Airport.
The pilot was 33-year-old Chaminda Senadhira from Queenstown.
The four dive masters were:
Adam Bennett (47) from Motueka;
Michael Suter (32)
from New Plymouth;
Christopher McDonald (62) from
Mapua;
Rodney Miller (55) from Greymouth.
The four
tourists who died were:
Patrick Byrne (26) from County
Wexford, Ireland;
Glenn Bourke (18) from Coburg,
Victoria, Australia;
Annita Kirsten (23) from Germany;
Brad Coker (24) from Farnborough, England.
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