Descent from Disaster

Hyde Train Crash - 1943

Kaimai Plane Crash - 1963

On July 3rd 1963, a National Airways Corporation DC3 slammed into a rocky ravine deep in the Kaimai...

Strongman Mine Disaster - 1967

West Coast's Leigh Hart revisits his old hometown of Runanga, where in 1967,it was one of several W...

Shipwreck of the S.S. Wairarapa - 1894

135 people lost their lives when the S.S. Wairarapa steamed straight into rocks on Great Barrier Is...

Hawkes Bay Earthquake - 1931

The Hawkes Bay Earthquake of 1931 is New Zealand's deadliest earthquake with over 250 people killed...

Influenza Pandemic - 1918

In 1918, 8500 New Zealanders lost their lives in a influenza pandemic that swept the world, Judy Ba...