{"id":7193,"date":"2010-09-04T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/nine-killed-in-plane-crash-in-new-zealand-near-fox-glacier-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T07:07:00","slug":"nine-killed-in-plane-crash-in-new-zealand-near-fox-glacier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/09\/nine-killed-in-plane-crash-in-new-zealand-near-fox-glacier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine killed in plane crash in New Zealand near Fox Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine people were killed when a skydive plane crashed at Fox Glacier airport in New Zealand including an 18-year-old Australian man from Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Fletcher FU-24-954 operated by Skydive NZ (Facebook)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The 30-year-old former agricultural aircraft, a Fletcher FU-24-954, burst into flames after taking off, just before 1.30pm.<\/p>\n

All nine passengers- comprising of New Zealanders and tourists- died in the crash, Stuff.co.nz reports.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, we will not be skydiving for the rest of the day,” said the message on the company Skydive New Zealand’s answer phone.<\/p>\n

An employee of the company, when contacted, did not comment on the mishap.<\/p>\n

While the police are informing the relatives, the age or gender of the deceased has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n

The Sunset motel’s spokesperson said the town was “devastated” by this accident.<\/p>\n

“We’ve lost five awesome people,” she added.<\/p>\n

The motel is located near to the airport.<\/p>\n

The company, located in the glaciers since 1997, is owned by locals of the town of Fox.<\/p>\n

A Fletcher Fixed Wing plane is considered ideal for mountainous regions. ANI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine people were killed when a skydive plane crashed at Fox Glacier airport in New Zealand including an 18-year-old Australian man from Victoria. Fletcher FU-24-954 operated by Skydive NZ (Facebook) The 30-year-old former agricultural aircraft, a Fletcher FU-24-954, burst into flames after taking off, just before 1.30pm. All nine passengers- comprising of New Zealanders and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}