Pharknose,
Your comments re Ron Chippendale are far from the truth, it would really help if you did a bit of research on these people before printing such garbage. I have taken the following from "New Zealand tragedies,Aviation" compiled by John King.
Ron Chippendale was the first witness to take the stand when the hearing began in an Auckland office building on 7 July 1980.
But while Mahon praised his witness for being a model witness, composed, impertuble and sure of his position, he belittled the capabilities of both the Chief Inspector and his staff. None of them, he said had ever been jet pilots, etc etc
The commissioners assessment of his first witness ignored Chippendales considerable experience as a flight instructor and transport pilot in the RNZAF.He had been formally involved in military flight safety and accident investigation for several years before being seconded to similar duties in civil aviation, and his standing in the world community is such that as someone scrupulously fair and independant, he has been asked to help investigate some accidents of a particularly delicate political nature. (Recently, for instance, he was appointed to the five strong United Nations team to investigate the loss of the Korean Airlines Boeing 747 airliner, Flight KAL007, shot down by a Soviet fighter near the Island of Sakhalin in 1983.)
Credentials far from the garbage you have printed.
Prospector