Aircraft FNX - accident Paihai New Year
A little history re this Cessna 185. She used to be VH CJT based in Qld. She dropped sky divers at Gatton and Aratula for a few years before being sold to the 'In the footsteps of Scott' expedition in 1985. She was placed in a container and shipped to Antartica on The Southern Quest. Unfortunately the ship got crushed in the ice, and sank with the log books, but the aircraft was put together and used to fly people and equipment to safety. She sat on the ice for about a year before shipped to New Zealand. She was a beautiful aircraft and when I had her, she was painted white with blue stripes.