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Microlight wreckage found
DATE: 10 FEBRUARY 2009 TIME : 9AM
Microlight wreckage found
Rescue teams
searching for two men missing after a microlight crash in
Abel Tasman National Park have this morning found two bodies
in the wreckage of the aircraft.
Two rescue helicopters and a Royal New Zealand Air Force Iroquois this morning joined ground crews in the search for the two men – a local pilot and a Dutch tourist – after an overnight search failed to locate any sign of them.
Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand Search and Rescue Officer Dave Wilson said the wreckage was found just after 8.30am, about 50m from the site where the wing of the craft was found yesterday.
The rescue teams were now in the process of recovering the bodies.
The two men – a pilot and a tourist from the Netherlands – departed in an Airborne XPS microlight for the flight over Takaka from Motueka at 1pm yesterday.
An aerial search was mounted after the plane failed to return by its expected time at 2.15pm, and the wing from the aircraft was located at the northern end of the Abel Tasman National Park just after 6pm.
Mr Wilson said Police and the Civil Aviation Authority would be investigating the crash.
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