The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Kaimai Ranges NAC DC-3 crash, which killed 23 people including Gisborne residents, will probably be the last opportunity for relatives to grieve together, aviation historian Rev. Dr Richard Waugh says. July 3, 1963, was when New Zealand's worst domestic air accident happened. Flight 441 was on a scheduled New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) flight from Auckland to Tauranga and then to Gisborne, Napier and Wellington. The passengers onboard DC-3 Skyliner ZK-AYZ Hastings represented a cross-section of New Zealand society at the time — men and women, Maori and Pakeha, young and old.

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