Bodies of American exec, wife found after NZ crash
9 April 2013 7:23 AM IST
New Zealand navy divers have recovered the bodies of an American wireless executive and his wife after the plane he was piloting crashed in the South Pacific.
Eric Hertz, an experienced amateur pilot, radioed authorities March 30 to say an engine had failed on the couple’s twin-engine Beechcraft Baron. He and his wife Kathy, a university employee, had left from an airport near Auckland bound for the South Island town of Timaru.
Divers recovered a second body on Sunday after recovering the first on Saturday near Kawhia Harbour, about 150 km south of Auckland. Divers also recovered plane parts from the wreckage about 56m below water.
Hertz, 58, had been chief executive of New Zealand’s Two Degrees Mobile since 2009.
Eric Hertz, an experienced amateur pilot, radioed authorities March 30 to say an engine had failed on the couple’s twin-engine Beechcraft Baron. He and his wife Kathy, a university employee, had left from an airport near Auckland bound for the South Island town of Timaru.
Divers recovered a second body on Sunday after recovering the first on Saturday near Kawhia Harbour, about 150 km south of Auckland. Divers also recovered plane parts from the wreckage about 56m below water.
Hertz, 58, had been chief executive of New Zealand’s Two Degrees Mobile since 2009.
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