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Old 20th April 2020 | 07:22
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Terry Dactil
 
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How one airline Captain, previously navigator, found a light aircraft lost in the Pacific.
The same Captain Gordon Vette was also involved in demolishing the "pilot error" verdict of the first investigation of Air New Zealand's DC-10 crash in Antarctica.

From Wikipedia::
In June 2007 Captain Gordon Vette was awarded the ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit), recognising his services in assisting Justice Mahon during the Erebus Inquiry. Vette's book, Impact Erebus, provides a commentary of the flight, its crash and the subsequent investigations.
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I can strongly recommend his book "Impact Erebus" and also the thread in this forum from many years ago.
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