NZ Helicopter Line Heli Ski Crash
Thoughts on what happened here... flat light perhaps?
Auckland church group loses one as helicopter smashes into mountain
Five helicopters ferried five patients to the Wanaka Medical Centre between 2pm and 3pm yesterday. Photo / Otago Daily Times Five helicopters ferried five patients to the Wanaka Medical Centre between 2pm and 3pm yesterday. Photo / Otago Daily Times
A loved family man and popular Church-goer was killed in an alpine helicopter crash yesterday on a rare outing with his mates.
This morning police confirmed the name of the deceased man as Jerome Box, 52, from Grey Lynn. The TAIC had launched an inquiry, Senior Sergeant Gavin Briggs said, and investigators would visit the crash site on Mt Alta later today or tomorrow.
Debris was strewn for almost 1km as an Auckland church group smashed into the side of a mountain aboard a helicopter yesterday, killing one and injuring six.
Wreckage of the helicopter. Photo / One News Wreckage of the helicopter. Photo / One News
Five parishioners from St Paul's Church, Symonds St, were on an $875 per person heli-ski flight when it clipped the north face of Mt Alta, near Wanaka, just after noon.
Up to a dozen helicopters were needed to retrieve the dead man, confirmed by the church as Jerome Box, 52, and the injured off the 2339m peak.