"With respect, how do you know how the other Captains (and crew) descended? Were all of the flights investigated in the detail this one was?"
No they were not, and that is why NZCAA had their hand smacked. They were supposed to be monitoring this operation, and I did hear through the grape vine many years ago that there should have been an Airline Inspector on Flt 901 that day, but due to family reasons he could not make it.
And of course all the other flights made it back so there was no need for any exhaustive investigations.
There was only one Accident report issued. Justice Mahon's was a legal opinion,
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