PLANE CRASH
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GISBORNE, Feb. 2. The pilot and a 16-year-old schoolboy passenger were killed when a Gisborne Aero Club Cessna 172 aircraft crashed this afternoon near Pehiri, 29 miles inland from Gisborne.
The victims were: Robert Dudley Willis, aged 26, single of Wellington, a commercial pilot associated with the Gisborne Aero Club for the last four months.
David Salvadore Zame, aged 16, an Edmund Campion College student, son of Mr Robert Zame, of 26 Disraeli street, Gisborne.
The aircraft was returning from a charter flight from Gisborne to Wairoa.
On the return journey, the Cessna crashed soon after 3 p.m. into a hillside on Mr A. J. McMeekin's Ballantrae station, about a mile beyond the airstrip.
The wreckage fell about 50 feet into a valley.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 1
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128PLANE CRASH Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 1
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