Dear Allen

I refer to your email below where you asked for the Wanaka Fire/Drone Occurrence Report.

The CAA received your request on 2 May and we will endeavour to respond as soon as possible and in any event no later than 30 May 2019, being 20 working days after the day your request was received.

Feel free to contact me by email [CAA request email] or by telephone (04) 560 9472 if you have any queries regarding your request.

Kind regards

Michelle van Straalen | Official Information and Privacy Officer
Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand Aviation Security Service
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From: Allen Reynolds <[FOI #10237 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2019 9:37 PM
To: OIA <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Wanaka Fire / Drone - Occurrence Report

Allen REYNOLDS
Auckland
02 May 2019

Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand

Dear Sir or Madam

Official information request: Wanaka Fire / Drone - Occurrence Report

Please supply the following information under the Official Information Act (OIA):

Stuff reported a “January 3 [2018] fire on Wanaka's Mt Alpha” covering some 200-hectares, where some 40 firefighters and eight helicopters were used…

They also reported that “the Queenstown District Court has remanded Chilean tourist Jorge Eduardo Riquelme Cruz, 33, on bail, without plea, on a charge of operating an unmanned drone near the fire likely to endanger fire-fighting pilots and their helicopters…”

Link – http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10068810...

“…Cruz was convicted on one charge of careless use of a drone under the Civil Aviation Act”, and forfeited the drone to the Crown

Link – https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/1...

Please provide the CAA Occurrence Number for this incident

Please provide a link (or the links) to the CAA report(s) of this incident

Was the CAA involved, in any way, with the investigation or prosecution of this incident?
Please provide general details

If you need any more information from me please let me know as soon as possible.

I understand that a decision on a request for information under the OIA should be made within 20 working days of receiving that request.

If you do not normally deal with official information requests, or you need advice on dealing with this request, guidance is available from the Ombudsman at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.

Yours faithfully
Allen Reynolds

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Dear Allen

I refer to your email of 2 May where you asked a series of questions
regarding a fire on Wanaka's Mt Aplha on 3 January 2018. 

 

The CAA does not have any record of this incident.   My colleague has
searched our data base and has  not been able to locate anything involving
the nearest point of Wanaka, location "alpha" or any brief description
including "fire" for the first half of January 2018.

 

The CAA are refusing your request under sections 18(e) and (g) of the
Official Information Act 1982 as the documents alleged to contain the
information requested do not exist and the information requested is not
held by the CAA.

 

You have the right to seek a review of our decision by the Ombudsman.
Details on how to make a complaint can be found at
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.

 

If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request with us, feel free to
contact me by email [2][CAA request email] or by mobile (027) 225 7700.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Michelle van Straalen | Official Information and Privacy Officer

Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand  Q Aviation Security Service

Te Mana Rererangi Tūmatanui o Aotearoa  |  Kaiwhakamaru Rererangi

 

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