At about 1600 hours on Saturday 21 October 1995, ZK-DRC took off from Big Bay for Alexandra. The pilot owned the aircraft and had flown it from Alexandra to Big Bay earlier in the afternoon to pick up his son and a friend who had spent the previous week whitebaiting. The aircraft did not arrive at Alexandra. A searching helicopter located the wreckage of ZK-DRC the next morning, near the Fohn Saddle at an elevation of about 4760 feet amsl. The aircraft had stalled onto a snow terrace. The three occupants had been killed. No conclusive explanation for the accident was established.
