March 18 
The ATSB has found that alcohol and cannabis may have contributed to the Hamilton Island Air Taxi accident 18 months ago when all 6 persons on board a Piper PA-32 were killed during an attempted return back to the departure runway

"The ATSB also suggested pilot inexperience is the more likely reason for the crash and has recommended a regime of random alcohol testing (for pilots) be introduced"

The original news article back then is HERE

March 19 
A French-built 1960 Fouga CM170 Magister jet trainer has crashed into the sea just 100 metres offshore east of Auckland in Kiwi Land killing the two persons on board

The x-military trainer had been doing aerobatics before "It went up into the clouds did a couple of rolls and a couple of loops and sort of came down spiralling and went straight in"

Purchased by a private collector a few years ago the Magister Warbird was the only one of its type operating in New Zealand