INQUEST ON TURNER FAMILY
A coroner in Timaru. Mr E.G. Bradley. conducting an enquiry into the deaths of the Turner family from National Park, said it was a "logical assumption" that the amount of luggage and fuel taken on board the light plane at Tekapo for it's flight over the Southern Alps last year "was a factor that could have led it to cras.hing in bad weather." The 4-seater Cessna 172 was on a scheduled flight from Tekapo to Fox Glacier on 30 July with Roy Turner, his wife Ann and their two children Kim, 9 and Guy, 4 when it went missing.
As no wreckage has yet been found to determine the exact cause of the crash and the deaths, the coroner said that the theory about the plane being up to it's maximum take-off weight with the quantity of fuel and luggage taken aboard combined with the bad weather which would have been encountered. was the probable cause. "Since the plane was carrying a manuallv operated emergency locator beacon, the fact that it was not operated indicates that the Turner family died either in the crash or immediately afterwards,"said the coroner.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 36, 28 February 1984, Page 1
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193INQUEST ON TURNER FAMILY Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 36, 28 February 1984, Page 1
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