Originally Posted by
tucumseh
212. My apologies for tardy reply. I completely missed your post.
Regarding the CVR recording, a transcript was made by the NTSB in Washington, and agreed by the 'CVR Committee'. Air New Zealand's investigator and chief pilot then took it upon themselves to make 55 changes; mostly adding words and phrases, and on one occasion completely deleting an entire phrase. No investigation protocol permits such a thing. At the very least the Committee is reconvened and a formal decision made on any proposed 'error'.
ANZ said the pilots knew they were heading for Erebus. But their briefing notes indicated otherwise. They had been given the wrong route. This error was known by the chief pilot, but not the lead investigator. The folder containing the briefing was recovered intact, but by the time it was returned to NZ for analysis the relevant pages had been removed. ANZ also visited the homes of deceased aircrew and removed other copies of the notes.
ANZ always denied this, but the chief pilot, Capt Gemmell, confessed to it on his deathbed. The CE of ANZ had ordered the shredding of all relevant material.
Originally Posted by
megan
It was an exercise in bastardry by the airline and government all round tucumseh
Originally Posted by
SpazSinbad
Spaz, in respect to Hansard, Senator Dave Shoebridge showed determination to get the point across which is a breath of fresh air. It isn't often that the members of parliament act in such a competent manner. Kudos to the guy:
Federal Members: David Shoebridge
[email protected]
For TE901, I was involved in the SAR for the aircraft, not a good day. A year later, was involved in some of the submissions to the Mahon enquiry. Mahon did an outstanding effort to expose causation accurately. That he was so badly treated after his report was released is a blight on the record of flight safety.
The back story of the aftermath was nothing to be proud of at all, for all of those concerned.