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Glider lands on awing and a prayerJulie Ash

AN EXPERIENCED pilot aimedhis glider at two pedestrian cross-ing poles outside a Paraparaumuprimary school, trying to breakhis speed as his aircraft plum-meted towards the ground.

The 45-year-old Karori manlanded safely yesterday morningby clipping the aircraft’s wings onthe poles, bringing the glider to ahalt and allowing him to walk

away uninjured.The man, who is also a gliderinstructor, was on a routine flightwhen his single-seater aircraft gotcaught in a strong downdraught.

Jerson Lat was washing his carwhen he saw the glider ‘‘drop fromthe sky’’. ‘‘One minute it was sortof flying along normally, then allof a sudden it dropped and wasreally low. I just thought: ‘Oh myGod, it’s going to crash’.’’

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landing alongside St Patrick’s Pri-mary School in Tongariro St, closto St Patrick’s Church.

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Mr George said fortunately noone was on the street at the time.There was some damage to thepedestrian poles, the plane’s wingsand a couple of trees the gliderclipped.

‘‘[The pilot] trains people iemergency procedures – theypractise them regularly – so .. . h just said he went into traininmode and everything worked. Thtraining paid off.

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The Civil Aviation Authority isinvestigating.

D-Day for childcancer service

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Fears for the future: Cancer patients Phoebe Hawthorne and Riley Thomson atWellington Hospital with their parents Chris Lankshear and John Thomson. MrThomson says it is an anxious time for families. Photo: CRAIG SIMCOX

LD cancer patients and theirlies are about to learn the fate

Wellington’s child cancer ser-, after Capital & Coast Districtlth Board finally agreed to aonal plan.Parents say a meeting has beennised for tomorrow evening toe the content of the Gov-

ment’s new national child can-ervices plan, which will deter-

e the Wellington service’sre – and whether familiese to face the additional stressavelling for treatment.t is understood that Capital &st has only just agreed to the, after refusing to agree to pre-s drafts that would have led toermanent downgrade of its

The DHB’s service has beenporarily downgraded to andary service since June lastr, when its two permanentdiatric oncologists – husband-wife team Christian Katz ande Mwe Chao – resigned.The downgrade has forced chil-

and their families to travel tostchurch and Auckland fornosis and complex treatment,etimes staying there months.Locum child cancer specialisth Strandjord has remained atital & Coast, allowing the ser-

to provide lower-level treat-t, such as maintenance chem-rapy.Health Ministry officials and at the DHBs have spentths wrangling over the futuree of child cancer services.

Chris Lankshear, whose daugh-ter Phoebe, 8, was the last child tobe treated at Wellington Hospitalbefore the 2008 downgrade, wasfearing the worst.

‘‘I’d like them to say it will bein Wellington but I don’t think itwill be. If there’s no possibility of it being here I think we’ll lose [DrStrandjord], which takes awaymore options.’’

Three broad outcomes are poss-ible.

The Wellington service couldremain downgraded, and Christ-church Hospital and Starship hos-pital in Auckland would become

the two main child cancer ser-vices.

The preferred option of parents – and Capital & Coast – is for theservice to be upgraded to a levelsimilar to the one it has providedin the past, where children canmostly remain in Wellington.

The thirdpossibility isa sharedservice, based in Christchurch,with child cancer specialistsspending one or two days a weekin Wellington.

Wellington’s child cancer ser-vice has been hampered by a dec-ade of uncertainty caused by thesuccessive resignations of health

professionals. It was also down-graded for most of 2008, after pre-vious specialists Liz Hesketh andAnne Mitchell resigned.

John Thomson, whose sonRiley, 6, has been receiving treat-ment for leukaemia since 2007,said it was an anxious time forfamilies who had a child with can-cer.

‘‘You don’t know what’s goingto happen – whether the unit’s go-ing to stay where it is, or get bet-ter, or get worse.’’

Another parent, Catherine Ter-nent, is part ofa parents’referencegroup set up by the district health

board when the service was down-graded last year.

The group met Health MinisterTony Ryall earlier this year andhoped he had taken their advice tokeep the service in Wellington.

‘‘It does seem like people havebeen listening. Tony [Ryall] didseem positive.’’

However, parents were worriedabout the departure this month of Capital & Coast chief executive

Ken Whelan, who had been astaunch advocate for the service,Ms Ternent said. ‘‘We felt quitegutted . . . because what’s to saywhoever takes over isn’t going tohave a completely different view?’’

A spokesman for Mr Ryallwould not comment on the contentof the plan, saying a few detailswere still being tweaked.

Capital & Coast did not respondto questions.

F AMILIES K EEP T HEIR F INGERS C ROSSED

‘It’s the worst time of your life anyway whensomeone tells you that your kid’s got cancer – you don’t need thatextra stress.’CHRIS LANKSHEAR

There’s no such thing as a luckychild cancer patient, but PhoebeHawthorne at least had fortunatetiming.

Phoebe, now aged eight, wasthe last child to complete her majortreatment for cancer beforeWellington’s paediatric oncologyunit was downgraded for the firsttime in 2008.

Not having to travel outsideWellington made all the differencein the world, her mum, ChrisLankshear said.

‘‘It meant we could go homeand sleep in our own beds and eatour own food.’’

Being forced to go toChristchurch or Auckland fordiagnosis and aggressive treatmentwas extra agony for families at adifficult time, she said.

‘‘It’s the worst time of your life

anyway when someone tells youthat your kid’s got cancer – youdon’t need that extra stress.’’

She hoped that tomorrow’smeeting with parents would bringgood news for patients and theirfamilies, but admitted she was notoptimistic. ‘‘I’d like them to say it

will be in Wellington but I don’tthink it will be.’’

John Thomson, whose son Riley,6, was diagnosed with leukaemianearly three years ago, was alsonervously awaiting theannouncement.

His family had been ‘‘quitelucky’’, he said. ‘‘Other than thebeginning, when we went toChristchurch for the first fourweeks of his treatment, we haven’thad to travel.’’

Riley is now receivingmaintenance chemotherapy – oneof the services WellingtonHospital’s child cancer unit can stillprovide.

Parents believed that reinstatinga full service in Wellington was thebest option, Mr Thomson said. ‘‘Butthe more realistic one is some sortof shared care.’’