Some apology is appropriate. But I'm astonished Jacinda Ardern has waded in and backed the Mahon report. Mahon was heavily manipulated by ALPA and while I believe he was sincere, his conclusions about the pilots having zero culpability were patently incorrect. The Privy Council did rubber stamp his findings but found him guilty of not following due process and for a member of the judiciary, there is no higher criticism. Really, I think the only credible debate at this point should be around whether the pilots deserve some of the blame or all of it.
We said it all - sometimes quite eloquently - here.
Erebus 25 years on