Sunair's Cessna 172 ZK-CBZ made a forced landing at Onemana, just north of Whangamata on Thursday afternoon, the 10th of November 2022. Setting out from Tauranga to Great Barrier Island as SUNAIR 12Z with two passengers the aircraft made the emergency landing after developing an engine fault. The Coromandel CFM website said, According to a local resident, the pilot originally was planning to land on the beach but diverted to a nearby firebreak when people were seen in the area he was planning to use on the beach for the landing. The alternate landing area selected is a rough fire break and the plane remains at the site and will be challenging to relocate. No one was injured during the emergency landing.
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| ZK-CBZ at Onemana on 10 November 2022. Photos : Stuff |
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Sources :
https://cfm.co.nz/news/plane-makes-emergency-landing-at-onemana/
Will be interesting to see how they recover her, and how long it will take for her to be back in the air again. I'd imagine they might airlift her out
ReplyDeleteIs being truck hiabed out today.
DeleteLooking on Google Maps it seems to be a long fire break... Get the grass mown and away you go... much cheaper than an airlift
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the pilot. The flight out to GB should be twin only on passenger ops, invariably the flight is not done with gliding distance in mind.
ReplyDeleteUm, probably 95% of travel to and from the Island is now done on Single Engine Aircraft (C208). Doesn't faze me at all.
ReplyDeleteHave done the Sunair TRG-WTZ-GBZ link a few times before in the 172 and it was fine, albeit pretty slow.
fair point, though was thinking of piston engine, bet the c208 doesn't go to gb at 2000ft
DeleteUsually 4 or 5000ft from memory. The Caravan has really changed the game for the Barrier.
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