More New Information about The Old Icey Topic

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The waypoint conveyed to Captain Collins at the briefing was at McMurdo Station.
The briefing included an audio-visual presentation with slides and a recorded narration.
The recorded narration was read from a script.
The script was produced at the hearing, as Exhibit 12.
The first two pages of Exihibit 12 are attached.
See the last paragraph on the second page: "A STANDARD ROUTE DEFINITION WILL BE USED EMPLOYING THE FROM-VIA-TO FORMAT. ENTER NZAA THEN 79S/167E BEING THE APPROXIMATE CO-ORDINATES OF MCMURDO STATION."

The audio-visual presentation was also repeated to Mahon at the Royal Commission hearing. He accepted that the waypoint conveyed to Captain Collins at the briefing was at McMurdo Station. Page 60, paragraph 164(b): "The pictorial representations showed to observers that the flight path was down McMurdo Sound and these displays would, not unnaturally, take precedence over the spoken words indicating a direct track from Cape Hallett to McMurdo Station and indicating the NDB co-ordinates as the destination waypoint."

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