NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS
KAIMAI AIR CRASH
3 JULY 1963
On the 3 July 1963 NAC Flight 441 was lost on a flight from Auckland to Tauranga with a loss of 23 lives - 20 passengers and 3 crew. Later that night wreckage was spotted in the Kaimai Ranges. It was the first time that a helicopter had been used in New Zealand to help with Search and Rescue.
A memorial to the crash was dedicated on 5 July 2003, the 40th anniversary of the crash. It is at Gordon, near Matamata.
For further information see the book KAIMAI CRASH - New Zealand's Worst Internal Air Disaster by Richard Waugh (2003 Craig Printing Company).
| BODDINGTON | Eleanor Eileen |
| BODDINGTON | Huia Duncan |
| CARTMER | Leonard John James |
| COONEY | Shelia Maureen |
| ENCHMARCH | Leonard Derek |
| FLYGER | Graham Clifford Frederick |
| GODDARD | Edward Lionel |
| GRACE | Tuta Hongara |
| GRAY | William Bruce |
| HARDLEY | John Russell |
| KISSEL | Peter George Guinness |
| LEWIS | Herbert Edward |
| LONG | Gavin Andrew |
| MORRIS | Norman Geoffrey |
| PULLUM | Frederick Charles |
| SEYMOUR | Sarah Te Taumiria |
| SMITH | John |
| TAYLOR | Diane Veronica |
| TAYLOR | Leslie Frederick |
| TOLERTON | Frederick |
| TOLERTON | Ruth |
| WILSON | Elizabeth Jill Louise |
| WOODGER | Kenneth John |
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