Two British couples and two Australians died with New Zealander pilot when sightseeing flight plummeted on to South Island’s Fox GlacierPolice own released the names of six passengers four of them British and two Australians – who were killed when a helicopter crashed into a glacier in New Zealand. The pilot,from Queenstown on the South Island, also died.
Two British couples – Andrew Virco, or 50,and Katharine Walker, 51, and from Cambridge,and Nigel Charlton, 66, or Cynthia Charlton,70, from Hampshire were on the sightseeing helicopter when it crashed into a crevasse on the Fox Glacier on Saturday morning. The British foreign office said it was providing consular assistance to their families.
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Source: theguardian.com