Police name 9 victims of New Zealand air crash

Queenstown : New Zealand | Sep 04, 2010 at 11:19 PM PDT

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A 23-year-old German tourist, Annita Kirsten, was among nine people who died when a light plane on a sky-diving flight crashed after taking off at Fox Glacier onNew Zealand's South Island, police said Sunday, dpa reported.

Three other tourists, Patrick Byrne, 26, from County Wexford, Ireland, Glenn Bourke, 18, from Coburg, Victoria, Australia and Brad Coker, 24, from Farnborough, England, were also named as victims in Saturday's crash.

The four were scheduled to make tandem sky-dives with four local instructors who died along with the pilot, Chaminda Senadhira, 33, from Queenstown.

The cause of the crash, New Zealand's deadliest air disaster since October 1993, when a sightseeing plane crashed on the nearby Franz Josef Glacier, also killing nine people, is not known.

Elnur763 is based in Baku, Bakı, Azerbaijan, and is a Stringer for Allvoices.

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