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- Title
- 1963 Kaimai air disaster helicopter and search teams
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- Tauranga City Libraries
- Collection
- Tauranga City Libraries Photograph Collection
- Description
Digitised 35 mm negative from the Gifford Cross Collection, donated to the Tauranga Public Library in the 1980s. Originally labelled as "Aircraft wreckage. Waihī radio operators", the label may actually refer to the negative with accession number 16-159. This image shows crew in jumpsuits preparing a helicopter for search and rescue operations, possibly the first such use of a helicopter. It is dated 5.7.63, two days after the Kaimai Air Disaster. Original negative (7500) is with Tauranga Cit...
- Format
- Image
- Date created
- Friday, 5 July 1963
- Creator
- Bay of Plenty Times
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- https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/137
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