Police recover bodies of pilot, passenger from helicopter crash near Paekākāriki Hill

📅 January 28, 2026 08:36 PM ⏱️ 1 min read 🕐 Scraped: January 28, 2026

Summary: A witness told RNZ he understood the helicopter was involved in goat culling in the area.

Photo: RNZ/Samuel Rillstone

Police have recovered the bodies from a fatal helicopter crash north of Wellington.

The crash happened near Paekākāriki Hill on Wednesday morning.

Both the pilot and a passenger wer

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