The aircraft landed safely and the woman was arrested. Both pilots and one passenger suffered stab injuries. The woman stated she had a bomb on board. Ĭhristchurch International Airport, New ZealandĪ woman attempted to hijack Air New Zealand Flight 2279 from Blenheim to Christchurch. Air New Zealand subsequently suspended all of its services to/through Nadi for seven months. All 105 passengers and 24 crew (including the three hostages) on board were uninjured. An aircraft refueller entered the Boeing 747-200's cockpit and held the captain, first officer and flight engineer hostage for six hours, before the flight engineer managed to distract the hijacker and hit him over the head with a bottle of duty-free whisky. The crash and subsequent inquiry resulted in major changes in Air New Zealand's management.ĭuring the first of Fiji's coups d'état that year, Air New Zealand Flight 24, flying from Tokyo Narita to Auckland via Nadi, was hijacked at Nadi International Airport. An unannounced change in flight path coordinates by the airline's navigational division the morning of the accident, combined with unique Antarctic weather and conditions, resulted in the aircraft crashing into Mount Erebus when the flight crew thought they were safely flying down McMurdo Sound. Ī McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 on a sightseeing flight over Antarctica, flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, killing all 257 people on board. One of the crew and one company staff member were killed. The captain then released a thin stream of fuel out of the DC-10's fuel dump tube creating a ten-mile-long vapour trail in the direction of Norfolk Island for the light aircraft to follow.Ī Fokker Friendship registered ZK-NFC, crashed into Manukau Harbour while on final approach. They successfully found it using a technical navigation method, with the help of an oil rig under tow. Ī light aircraft became lost over the Pacific and the crew of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating as Air New Zealand Flight 103 was asked to search for it. 4 engine (the outer engine on the right wing) by bringing the cockpit power control lever to the idle position but inadvertently selected reverse thrust, which sent the aircraft out of control. The crew had simulated a failure of the No. Air New Zealand and its subsidiaries have been involved in several incidents and accidents, including four hull loss accidents.Īir New Zealand Incidents and Accidents FlightĪ Douglas DC-8-52 with the registration ZK-NZB crashed at Auckland International Airport shortly after taking off on a training flight, killing the pilot and flight engineer of the five person crew (no passengers were on board).
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