- Date
- September 8, 2026, 05:20 local (05:20 UTC)
- Place
- Eyrewell, New Zealand · Pasture/Grass Airfield
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- ZK-IQPCanadian Home Rotors Safari
- Defining event
- Unknown: Unknown or undetermined
- Weather
- Not reported
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 203770
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Unknown or undeterminedAll aircraft: 1,703 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- ZK-IQP
- Reported as
- Canadian Home Rotors Safari
- Category
- Helicopter
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported
- Wind
- 50° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Observed at
- NZCH, 10 nm away
- METAR
- METAR NZCH 080530Z AUTO 05006KT 9999 FEW050/// 10/06 Q1010