Date:	Thursday 22 July 1965
Time:	c. 1600
Type:	Piper PA-18A-150 Super Cub
Owner/operator:	Central Aviation Ltd
Registration:	ZK-BTJ
MSN:	18-6004
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Island Block, Otago -   New Zealand
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Agricultural
Departure airport:	Beaumont Station
Destination airport:	Island Block airstrip
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
Location: H K Lake property, Island Block.
The aircraft stalled during a go-around, crashed into the ground, and exploded into flames. Pilot James Ferguson was killed.
The accident investigation found the hopper exit blocked with clods of earth, and concluded the relatively inexperienced pilot ( 291 hours total flying of which 13:55 were on aerial topdressing operations ) may have been preoccupied with clearing the blockage while on approach. During the go-around, he may have seen or remembered high-tension wires beyond the airstrip, and reacted by pulling up too steeply.

1. Civil Air Accident Files, Archives New Zealand
2. King, John (1995). Aviation Accidents and Disasters. New Zealand Tragedies. Wellington: Grantham House. pp. 176-177. ISBN 1 86934 042 6.
Air Accident Report No. 25/3/1544.

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

1 February 1958

ZK-BTJ

Checketts Aerial Topdressing Co Ltd

0

Waitahuna, Otago

unk

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
07-Jun-2009 00:27	XLerate	Updated
07-Jun-2009 00:37	XLerate	Updated
09-Jun-2011 01:10	angels one five	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]
21-Apr-2013 22:04	angels one five	Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Narrative]
26-Jan-2014 08:50	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type]
04-Feb-2022 07:44	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, Narrative]
04-Feb-2022 07:44	Ron Averes	Updated [Operator]
10-Feb-2022 13:25	Ron Averes	Updated [Aircraft type]