The four British tourists killed in the accident have now been named as Andrew Virco, 50, and Katharine Walker, 51, from Cambridge, and Nigel and Helen Charlton, aged 66 and 70, from Hampshire.
The aircraft crashed into a crevasse while flying over the Fox Glacier – a popular tourist area - on New Zealand’s South Island on Saturday.
Also among the dead were Sovannmony Leang, 27, and Josephine Gibson, 29, both from New South Wales, Australia, and pilot Mitchell Gameren, 28, from Queenstown, New Zealand.
The cause of the crash is still being investigated.
Bad weather hampers recovery of bodies in NZ crash
Destinations
Sophie Griffiths
23 November 2015
Bad weather is continuing to hamper efforts to recover the bodies of four of the seven victims who were killed in a helicopter crash in New Zealand.
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