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New Zealand's Premier got a scare on air

Wellington, New Zealand - The plane lost height when the door opened due to a turbulence

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Mrs Helen Clerk, was working in the back of the chartered six-seat twin-engine Piper Aztec, together her press secretary and two guards, when turbulence forced open the door. The aircraft would have begun losing height forcing the pilot of the private Mountain Air, to send out a mayday: but before rescuers were deployed, she tried the emergency landing at Paraparaumu A...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 118552
Rome, Italy, 04/14/2005 12:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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