Dead pilot named
BY LEIGHTON KEITH
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LATEST: Police have named the pilot who died in a plane crash near Stratford on Sunday as Colin Greatrex, 52, of Auckland.
Mr Greatrex was piloting a Pitts single engined stunt plane through the Stratford gap when it disappeared from radar just before mid-day.
The plane's wreckage was spotted from the air about 4pm.
Civil Aviation Authority investigators were at the scene yesterday and expected to spend two days at the site.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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