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Old 21st May 2018, 07:48
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KiwiNedNZ
 
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Actually Crab I am here with the crews at Air Zermatt, Gerold the CEO is a very good friend of mine. I actually posed the question to him yesterday about the accident and if any repercussions for Andreas who was flying. He said no as we are all fallible. They will analyse the accident, what happened, what should be done to ensure it doesn't happen again and move forward. As he said no point in firing a pilot who has thousands of hours mountain flying as then you have to start from scratch with someone else. Bottom line Air Zermatt a very good professional company with a LOT of very experienced pilots. Considering they operate in a pretty hostile environment year round I am actually surprised there are not more incidents. They take training to the highest level and need to when you are doing a HEC rescue on the side of the Matterhorn at 13,000ft in the middle of the night in **** weather. Anyway thats just some FYI. Cheers,
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