Thread: Public land deer - 53 years ago.

Originally Posted by Trout

In the mid-late70s my younger cousin from Timaru was one of the youngest pilots to get his commercial chopper licence(18yrs old).He and his shooting partner brought a R22 for deer recovery.All going well till they got it serviced while on the West Coast.After the service,in the evening they were taking a few containers of fuel up a valley for the next days hunting.They never got half way up the valley.None commercial bolt was a replacement in the tail blade holder.R22 was shaken out of the sky on top of the fuel containers under neath.You can amagine the rest.Bloody waste of good lifes.

I didn't think any r22's were present in NZ until at least the eighties.