New Zealand police Sunday named nine people, including four foreigners, killed in a skydiving plane crash, as investigators said it could be over a year before the cause of the accident was known.
A TV grab from TVNZ shows the wreckage of a Fletcher FU24 turbine powered skydiving aircraft in a field near Fox Glacier on the west coast of New Zealand. Nine people, including four foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot, officials said.
In the nation's worst air accident in 17 years, the aircraft crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff on Saturday at an airstrip near the Fox Glacier tourist spot on the rugged west coast of New Zealand's South Island. There were no survivors.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
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