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The mother of Upper Hutt schoolgirl Catherine Banks - killed in a gliding tragedy in Waipukurau 20 years ago along with her instructor - has made contact with the instructor's widow before next month's rededication of a memorial plaque erected for the pair.
In the CHB Mail this month Elizabeth Banks appealed for information about Geraldine Zulver, widow of glider instructor Dr Paul Zulver, who was killed with Catherine when their glider plummeted near CHB Aerodrome on December 9, 1997.
Catherine was one of 20 cadets attending an Air Training Corps (ATC) gliding camp at the aerodrome. Dr Zulver, an English-born doctor who moved to CHB from Canada with his wife and two daughters three years before the accident, became an instructor earlier that year.
After the accident, a wooden plaque was erected on a memorial inside the aerodrome to honour the pair, but it had fallen into disrepair.