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اليوم السبت 21 نوفمبر 2015 الموافق 9 صفر 1437 هجري
المكان: نيوزيلندا
الضحايا: 7 أشخاص
أكدت السلطات النيوزيلندية إن مروحية تحطمت فوق جبل جليدي في نيوزيلندا مما أسفر عن مقتل سبعة أشخاص كانوا على متنها. نقلت وسائل إعلام محلية عن الشرطة قولها إنه تم إنزال فريق الانقاذ من الجو إلى موقع الحادث إلا أنه لم يعثر على أي ناجين.
وقالت صحيفة "نيوزيلند هيرالد" إن الركاب الستة كانوا سائحين أجانب على ما يبدو دون تقديم مزيد من المعلومات. وأظهرت صورة التقطها طاقم بحث تابع للشرطة حطام الطائرة في صدع عميق في منطقة جبلية على ارتفاع حوالي 800 متر بمنطقة "فوكس جلاسير". وقال مسؤولون إن الطقس القاسي وظروف الطيران السيئة يعوقان جهود انتشال جثث الضحايا.
يذكر أن "فوكس جلاسير" تقع على الساحل الغربي للجزيرة الجنوبية وهي مقصد سياحي شهير، وخاصة في فصل الصيف الذي سيبدأ قريبا في نصف الكرة الجنوبي.

Published: November 21, 2015
A helicopter with seven people on board crashed at a popular New Zealand tourism site on Saturday, with authorities saying difficult conditions were hampering the search for any survivors.
Four rescue helicopters have been dispatched to the scene at Fox Glacier on the remote west coast of the South Island, a New Zealand Rescue Co-Ordination Centre spokesperson said.
A paramedic will be winched down to the crash site to assess the situation and a cliff rescue team is also being sent to the area.
Weather conditions around the glacier were described as “terrible” with heavy rain and poor visibility.
“It wouldn’t be a good day to be flying helicopters,” Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn told the New Zealand Herald.
“Everything is against a rescue (mission). It will be cold up there. And the problem is amplified by the cloud cover.
“It is terrible,” he said. “We just have to wait and see if there are any survivors.”

The downed helicopter was reported to belong to Alpine Adventures, a company that advertises itself as an “experienced helicopter flight-seeing company providing visitors with a diverse range of South Island scenic helicopter flights and private charters in some of most spectacular alpine and coastal regions of New Zealand”.
The Australians believed to have been killed in a helicopter crash on New Zealand's Fox Glacier have been named as Sovannmony Leang and Josephine Gibson, a couple from Sydney.
New Zealand Police said they believe Mr Leang, 27, and Ms Gibson, 29, were on board the aircraft with four other passengers and the Kiwi pilot when it crashed on a sightseeing flight yesterday.
The bodies of three of the seven victims have been recovered from the crash site but authorities said formal identification may take a number of days.
“We have started body recovery, we did that by winching people from helicopters onto the ice,” Inspector John Canning said.
Ms Gibson’s family released a statement today, thanking everyone for their “overwhelming support during this tough time”.
“Josephine was loved dearly by her family and friends. She was a devoted sister, daughter, partner, Aunty, colleague and friend,” the statement read.