Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Ansett New Zealand flight 703 was a scheduled domestic Dash- 8 flight between Auckland and Palmerston North on the 9th of June, 1995. However, it would crash just minutes before landing, sparking a major air crash investigation, in what is one of the very few commercial plane crashes ever to occur in New Zealand.










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Accident Investigator scenes - CottonBro , Via Pexels

Dash 8 Flight Deck with Pilots Video - Daniel Król

Radar Altimeter - Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ansett Dash 8 on Tarmac - Ken Fielding/flickr.com/photos/kenfielding, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons