Passengers walking away from a NAC Boeing 737 aircraft in thick smoke, Christchurch Airport

Passengers walking away from a NAC Boeing 737 aircraft in thick smoke, Christchurch Airport
Date
28 April 1975
Reference
EP-Accidents-Fires 1975 (1)-01
Description

Passengers walking away from a NAC Boeing 737 aircraft at Christchurch Airport, surrounded by dense smoke. All 103 passengers were made to disembark five minutes before departure for Dunedin. A smouldering suitcase was found in the rear cargo hold. Photographed 28 April 1975 by an unidentified photographer.

Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 17.1 x 20.3 cm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / Fires in 1975
Format
1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Gelatin silver prints, Silver gelatin print 17.1 x 20.3 cm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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Passengers walking away from a NAC Boeing 737 aircraft in thick smoke, Christchurch Airport. Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP-Accidents-Fires 1975 (1)-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23175028

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