Lost in the Pacific - Air New Zealand (I think) to the rescue.
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Lost in the Pacific - Air New Zealand (I think) to the rescue.
Do any readers from down under remember the time a light aircraft on ferry from the US got into trouble over the Pacific, and an ANZ (I think) B747 located him by various means, and was able to give him assistance, most likely saving his day. I think the light a/c was a crop duster, and this story was made into a film. Anybody got the title please?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Random Electron; 30th Jul 2003 at 22:53.
Gordon Vette was the gentleman that wrote a book on the accident in Antartica. I think another few facts that weren't super accurate in the movie, was the aircraft was a DC-10 not a 767, and that in the end the Agwagon ended up finding Norfolk and landed there, but of course the hugging on the taxiway in Auckland made for a better movie scene rather than him hopping out of the aircraft in Norfolk by himself 
Some of it was filmed locally here in OZ, a lot of the airport scenes were at BN, and the scene at Fiji was actually Archerfield.
Some of it was filmed locally here in OZ, a lot of the airport scenes were at BN, and the scene at Fiji was actually Archerfield.
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The theory is most definitely correct, as Gordan Vette proved in the actual aircraft.
But as for the movie, it has many inaccuracies.
I have still yet to see an aviation movie that doesn't have some major mistakes. And they all seem so obvious, you would think, they would take more time to get it right.
But as for the movie, it has many inaccuracies.
I have still yet to see an aviation movie that doesn't have some major mistakes. And they all seem so obvious, you would think, they would take more time to get it right.
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yeah the mercy mission video is classic, since aircraft was apparently a dc-10, it showed a 737-200 for the takeoff scene, and a 767 for the rest
More trivial pursuit goodies.
I think it was Tony Pratt, Kingaroy based crop duster, who flew the C188 sequences. Apparently he scared the bejesus out of the crew on the police boat who had cleared the general boating traffic clear of his v-e-r-y low flying prior to the simulated ditching.
