Two Air New Zealand Emergencies In One Day

Numerous media outlets are reporting on two Air New Zealand engine failure emergencies that happened on Sunday 8 May 2011. Fortunately both planes landed safely, although passengers were very shaken by their experience. The first was an Air NZ Boing 737-300, Flight NZ-417 from Auckland to Wellington with 101 people on board source The plane…

Real-Time Eruption Warning For Mount Ruapehu

An yellow alert was recently issued to aviation following increased signs of activity at Mount Ruapehu – one of New Zealand’s active volcanoes. Read “Mount Ruapehu Heating Up” Today a press release was issued by Massey University in which it was revealed that a real-time doppler radar system is to be installed at the volcano…