Rescuers find second body at crash site
Thursday, 2 December 2004, 10:03 am
Press Release: National Rescue Coordination Centre
MEDIA RELEASE
Date: 1 December 2004
Time:
1.15pm
Rescuers find second body at crash site
Rescuers
have found the body of the second man in the wreckage of the
plane which crashed into Mt Taranaki yesterday.
This
morning three highly experienced climbers and a photographer
spent more than three hours climbing to the crash site,
which is about 20 metres from the summit and inside the
Mount crater.
“The search team did an outstanding job to
reach the aircraft in arduous weather conditions and to find
the second person,” says Rescue Coordination Centre Senior
Search and Rescue Officer Geoff Lunt.
“Both bodies will
be removed once rescuers are better able to access the site
when the weather conditions improve.”
ENDS
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