8.30pm
A top dressing pilot has been killed after his light plane crashed near Waipara in North Canterbury.
Police believe the aircraft clipped a line of wire at the end of the airstrip as the pilot attempted to take off just before 5pm.
It reportedly went down in a ball of flame. Fire crews have been dousing the wreckage, which is scattered across 50 metres
- Newstalk ZB
Top dressing pilot killed in crash
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