Nelson plane crash: Fire and Emergency calls recovery video an ‘error of judgment’

New Zealand Herald · Jack Marshall · 2026-11-06 07:14 UTC

The footage showed rescuers preparing to abseil to the wreckage site.

Unauthorised video footage from a recovery mission for two killed in a plane crash has been called an “error of judgment” by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.

A pilot and passenger died when a privately owned Cessna 172P Skyhawk crashed in remote terrain in the Bryant Range, northeast of Nelson,on Tuesday.

The bodies were recovered from the site about 4pm on Thursday using a helicopter, police said.

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