Pilot may have flown too fast, used his phone before fatal crash
Matthew Wallis was killed when his helicopter crashed into Lake Wanaka in 2018.
Matthew Wallis was killed when his helicopter crashed into Lake Wanaka in 2018.
The Badenhorst family is used to farm life, but farm shed life is a different story.
Matthew Wallis died when the aircraft he was flying crashed in July 2018.
Tragedy was one of two fatal chopper crashes to befall the same family that year.
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