Can I repeat my thanks to the Reeve family for their help in cleaning up what was a very poor quality film scan of the record of my own experiences with Captain Brian Chadwick. This film has in turn enabled me to make contact with knowledgable aviation enthusiasts and experts who have been involved in a number of subsequent aviation events. The flight of Chadwick with his passengers on 12th February 1962 was more significant than it would at first appear. It concentrated my own thoughts as to the investigation process in New Zealand of aviation accidents and searches for missing aircraft. The significant factor was that young airforce pilots were involved in the search not just in the dense New Zealand bush country but in the snow and ice capped mountains where what later was recognised as “white-out” conditions prevailed. Two of those young pilots played pivotal roles in the tragedy at Mount Erebus in Antarctica on 28th November 1979. On 7th November of that year, Roger Dalziell was the pilot in charge of the sightseeing trip to Antarctica but had to divert due to bad weather. Jim Collins was the pilot in charge just three weeks later and due to a series of tragic catastrophic links, his flight known as TE901 hit Mount Erebus and all 257 passengers and crew were instantly killed. Like Dalziell, another pilot from the RNZAF search party became one of the lead investigators who searched for the truth as to the cause of the Mt Erebus tragedy - Capt. Peter Rhodes. With the coincidence of my filmed trip with Chadwick (as screened again in this TH-cam posting) I was the recipient of so much information and data about the Erebus tragedy and other air crash investigations, that I was persuaded by the Rev. Dr. Richard Waugh that I had to gather all this information and publish it in a book. As I write, the manuscript has been finalised and a book designer is completing what I hope is a reasonable book showing how important the Loss of the Dragonfly became in the link of a number of aviation tragedies, not least being the circumstances of the search for the truth of what were the causes of these accidents. Some of my film originally posted on TH-cam in 2021 has been re screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation together with other precious film and photographs made by the Reeve family, Gavin Grimmer and Lew Bone. My book is entitled “Erebus and the Dragonfly” which I hope to be made available as soon as the logistics of printing and transportation have been solved. Watch this space if you are interested in the Dragonfly and the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Erebus disaster. (Mahon Inquiry and the subsequent NZ Appeal Court and Privy Council judicial reviews). Assistance and contributions have been received in the writing of the book from virtually everyone still alive involved in the Mahon inquiry. The importance of the Dragonfly saga cannot be overlooked.
@@clarkmccarthy3482 Yes that is true. We have put it out worldwide to find out more about it. But no one has come up with anymore information about it.
Can I repeat my thanks to the Reeve family for their help in cleaning up what was a very poor quality film scan of the record of my own experiences with Captain Brian Chadwick. This film has in turn enabled me to make contact with knowledgable aviation enthusiasts and experts who have been involved in a number of subsequent aviation events. The flight of Chadwick with his passengers on 12th February 1962 was more significant than it would at first appear. It concentrated my own thoughts as to the investigation process in New Zealand of aviation accidents and searches for missing aircraft.
The significant factor was that young airforce pilots were involved in the search not just in the dense New Zealand bush country but in the snow and ice capped mountains where what later was recognised as “white-out” conditions prevailed. Two of those young pilots played pivotal roles in the tragedy at Mount Erebus in Antarctica on 28th November 1979. On 7th November of that year, Roger Dalziell was the pilot in charge of the sightseeing trip to Antarctica but had to divert due to bad weather. Jim Collins was the pilot in charge just three weeks later and due to a series of tragic catastrophic links, his flight known as TE901 hit Mount Erebus and all 257 passengers and crew were instantly killed. Like Dalziell, another pilot from the RNZAF search party became one of the lead investigators who searched for the truth as to the cause of the Mt Erebus tragedy - Capt. Peter Rhodes.
With the coincidence of my filmed trip with Chadwick (as screened again in this TH-cam posting) I was the recipient of so much information and data about the Erebus tragedy and other air crash investigations, that I was persuaded by the Rev. Dr. Richard Waugh that I had to gather all this information and publish it in a book. As I write, the manuscript has been finalised and a book designer is completing what I hope is a reasonable book showing how important the Loss of the Dragonfly became in the link of a number of aviation tragedies, not least being the circumstances of the search for the truth of what were the causes of these accidents.
Some of my film originally posted on TH-cam in 2021 has been re screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation together with other precious film and photographs made by the Reeve family, Gavin Grimmer and Lew Bone.
My book is entitled “Erebus and the Dragonfly” which I hope to be made available as soon as the logistics of printing and transportation have been solved.
Watch this space if you are interested in the Dragonfly and the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Erebus disaster. (Mahon Inquiry and the subsequent NZ Appeal Court and Privy Council judicial reviews). Assistance and contributions have been received in the writing of the book from virtually everyone still alive involved in the Mahon inquiry.
The importance of the Dragonfly saga cannot be overlooked.
Expellant presentation of this quest to try and solve this missing aircraft and passengers.
Has anyone checked the plane wheel that was on the door at the puysegur landing shed.
Do you have a photo for us to check out?
@niledelta5565 not a clear one sorry. Have not been back since pre lock down. It was still there.
Interesting video there are two key pieces of evidence here both need to be studied a lot more to rule them in or out!
Thank you for your comment. Would you like to share what those two pieces of evidence are?
@@clementine2681 the shoe and the buckle need to be looked at more to be ruled in or out
@@clarkmccarthy3482 Yes that is true. We have put it out worldwide to find out more about it. But no one has come up with anymore information about it.