While most of New Zealand is taking today easy on account of it being Labour Day, two pilots were working to extricate themselves from a sewage pond after their C172 overran the runway during a touch-and-go at Thames airport in NZ's North Island (see map below).
The duo were injured--physically, at least--and there was no structural damage to aircraft, owned by South Auckland's Ardmore Flying School. But the C172's engine was completely submerged, making it likely the aircraft will be a write-off, according to an account told to Waikato Times by a chief flying flying instructor based at airfield and who witnessed the accident.
This morning Christchurch-based Pacific Blue was unwittingly promoting flights from Australia to NZ with the tag line "What's ours is yours", which in light of this recent incident, is awfully generous.
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The duo were injured--physically, at least--and there was no structural damage to aircraft, owned by South Auckland's Ardmore Flying School. But the C172's engine was completely submerged, making it likely the aircraft will be a write-off, according to an account told to Waikato Times by a chief flying flying instructor based at airfield and who witnessed the accident.
This morning Christchurch-based Pacific Blue was unwittingly promoting flights from Australia to NZ with the tag line "What's ours is yours", which in light of this recent incident, is awfully generous.
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