Tributes to those who died doing what they loved

The scene of the plane crash at Fox Glacier airfield. Photo / Sarah Ivey

Brad Coker, 24, web manager, from Farnborough, England. Friends of Coker paid tribute to him on Facebook. "You were living life to the max and were taken doing the crazy things you loved," wrote Jessica Boutcher, from London.

Patrick Byrne, 26, from County Wexford, Ireland. An electrician, from Askamore, he was three weeks into a one-year working visa and has been remembered by a friend as "always happy". "He looked upon life as precious, while he also loved travelling, which is what took him to New Zealand," the friend told the Sunday Independent.

Adam Bennett, 47, from the New South Wales city of Wollongong, had been living in Motueka, near Nelson, for the past two years. He was working for Skydive NZ as a tandem master, he previously worked for Skydive Abel Tasman and was a keen base jumper. He had more than 20 years' skydiving experience but hated flying. His mother Pamela has travelled here to take his body home.

Glen Bourke, 18, from Coburg in Victoria, Australia. On his first trip overseas, he had already been bungy jumping and whitewater rafting. In Melbourne, his mother Karen said he was soon to start training as a paramedic. His girlfriend Heidi Duthie said, in a school newsletter, Bourke was "warm, generous, friendly and genuine. His heart was as big as his smile". She added: "Words cannot describe theloss we feel without him. His place in our hearts will never be taken."

Chami Senadhira, 33, always dreamed of being a pilot, said his former partner Tabitha Coyle. "And thankfully he got to do what he loved. He touched so many hearts."

Michael Suter, 32, "Loved anything to do with adrenalin," said his mother, Delys.

Rod Miller, 55, from Greymouth. His son Flynn wrote on Facebook: "It's hard to believe that all those people will never be around again - 17 years with Dad is just too short."