ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 226230
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| Date: | Sunday 16 June 2019 |
| Time: | 11:15 |
| Type: |  Cessna 185A Skywagon |
| Owner/operator: | Skydive Wellington (owner: Sky Sports NZ Ltd) |
| Registration: | ZK-CBY |
| MSN: | 185-0420 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Masterton Aerodrome, Wairarapa -
 New Zealand
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | Masterton Airport (MRO/NZMS) |
| Masterton Airport (MRO/NZMS) | |
| Investigating agency: | TAIC |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Cessna 185A Skywagon (ZK-CBY) skydiving plane and a Tecnam P2002-JF (ZK-WAK) crashed following a mid-air collision while on approach to the Hood Aerodome in Masterton, New Zealand. Both aircraft were consumed by the post crash fire and the sole pilot on board each aircraft was fatally injured.
The pilot of ZK-CBY was joining the non-standard right-hand for runway 06L, as this was how they had been instructed to join. The pilot of ZK-CBY, as the joining aircraft, needed to give way to ZK-WAK, but did not see it in time to avoid the collision. The non-standard join was at variance with Civil Aviation Rules (CARs), but had become an accepted practice at the aerodrome.
Both aeroplanes were approaching the runways at the same time. The aerodrome chart informed pilots that ‘simultaneous operations’ were prohibited. However, there was no definition of what ‘simultaneous operations’ were, and as a result there were a range of interpretations.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113521858/emergency-services-on-way-to-scene-after-two-planes-crash-in-masterton
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12240888
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/392165/two-aircraft-crash-in-masterton-at-least-one-injured
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/06/two-light-aircraft-crash-near-masterton.html
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/both-pilots-killed-after-two-light-aircraft-collide-mid-air-in-carterton?auto=0&fbclid=IwAR0Vlszz-oorAVfKVLQadjjZgAbYZq15z0CqL8Rc3i5VyMDo1OGtiyk2bhI
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/both-pilots-killed-after-two-light-aircraft-collide-mid-air-in-masterton
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/six-people-dead-in-masterton-mid-air-plane-crash-police-confirm
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/bodies-both-pilots-died-in-mid-air-crash-removed-mangled-wreckage-near-masterton
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https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/7352083 (photo)
https://taic.org.nz/inquiry/ao-2019-006
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 February 1965 | ZK-CBY | Rural Aviation (1963) Ltd | 0 | Eketahuna, Wairarapa | |
min |
| 11 January 1968 | ZK-CBY | Tourist Air Travel Ltd | Cattle Flat, Southland | |
unk | |
| 2 February 1973 | ZK-CBY | Mount Cook Air Services Ltd | Mount Cook, Canterbury | |
unk | |
| 11 August 1982 | ZK-CBY | Mount Cook Group Ltd | Tasman Glacier, Mount Cook NP | |
unk |
Images:
Hood airfield, Masterton, 7Jan2012.
Media:
New Zealand - The bodies of two pilots who died yesterday in a mid-air plane crash have now both been removed from the scene of the wreckage in Masterton.
— PLANES OF LEGEND (@PlanesOfLegend) 17 juin 2019
ASN:https://t.co/NNZZ6eLpJShttps://t.co/slI7TisKvB
Press: https://t.co/DfTeNyNZ3y via @1NewsNZ pic.twitter.com/VjUugamKrb
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Jun-2019 00:18 | Captain Adam | Added |
| 16-Jun-2019 00:28 | Captain Adam | Updated [Operator, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 16-Jun-2019 01:14 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 16-Jun-2019 01:24 | Captain Adam | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Jun-2019 01:25 | RobertMB | Updated [Destination airport] |
| 16-Jun-2019 03:27 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Jun-2019 05:13 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Jun-2019 05:22 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Jun-2019 13:16 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 17-Jun-2019 09:26 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code] |
| 17-Jun-2019 09:32 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 22-Jun-2019 05:04 | Flyernzl | Updated [Photo] |
| 08-Aug-2020 02:59 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 06-Feb-2022 06:39 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 03-Nov-2022 06:52 | harro | Updated [Departure airport, Embed code, Narrative, Accident report] |
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