Originally Posted by
PapaHotel6
Indeed, Prospector.
............. why is it the public are never presented with this stuff? .................... Are the media just thick?.............
The media is only interested in stories that sell newspapers. There are no stories here. That news is 40 years old Mate and is old hat. Now there is just rehashing of those events, the desire to change what is set in stone and a few malcontents that wish the Honorable Justice Mahon had never been appointed by Piggy Muldoon to the Erebus Inquiry.
The usual critics will come up with more theories and garbage about Privy Council determinations in 1981 but they will not matter and will not change what is set in stone.
What is not garbage is despite his resignation from the High Court, Mahon decided to appeal to the Privy Council against the Court of Appeal's judgement and
the government agreed to pay his costs. A four-week hearing was held in July 1983. In October the Privy Council
'very reluctantly' agreed with the Court of Appeal's judgements and dismissed Mahon's appeal. They also
placed on record a tribute to the 'brilliant and painstaking investigative work done by the judge'.
The Privy Council also pointed out after it's findings: QUOTE: The Privy Council expressed the wish that everyone caught up in the Erebus conflagration would
move on from it. "The time has now come for all parties to
let bygones be bygones so far as the aftermath of the Mt Erebus disaster is concerned.
The time for bitter feelings is over."
The New Zealand government has done that. On 18 August 1999 the Minister of Transport, Maurice Williamson, who worked at Air New Zealand as a corporate planner at the time of the crash, tabled
the Mahon report in Parliament. Present for the occasion were Maria Collins and Anne Cassin, the widows of two of the pilots on the flight, and Margarita Mahon, Justice Peter Mahon's widow.
Williamson argued that the time for apportioning blame was over;
he was tabling the report because 'of the lessons it taught'.
I would respectfully suggest that the Mahon Report is indeed alive and well even if the disaster of Flight TE901 is now in the archives of history.
Lest we Forget.