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Old 29th Jan 2008, 19:15
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prospector
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Front Pit,
Read post 86 this thread re Collins folder.

Certainly this is becoming a waste of time.

Desert Dingo,

You posted some of Mr Thomsons statements but you missed this one.

"Air New Zealand and NZALPA went to some lengths to ensure that their senior pilots and members were seen as professionals who knew it all and did not therefor need to seek advice from elsewhere, such as the RNZAF, USAF USN, or the Division.

Are you or were you ever a member of NZALPA???

This from New Zealand Aviation Tragedies by John King

"The NZALPA evidence was all clearly rehearsed, declares Ian Gemmel, who had visited all the other Antarctic pilots with Chief Accident Inspector Ron Chippendale when he was gathering evidence for his report. "Their evidence differed from the interviews with Chippendale. Their answers then were not the same as given to the Court of Inquiry under oath, but they all agreed with NZALPA's stance. NZALPA's plan was to get the pilot off the hook. They socialised with the judge during and after the case.

This aspect is described by Morrie Davis as "absolutely disgusting and unforgivable". He has a copy of a letter written by Mahon part way through the enquiry, on Royal Commission of Enquiry paper, to an American lawyer saying the pilot was blameless and the airline was at fault.

Why did High Court judge Mahon resign when asked by Mr Davis to do so?? Mr Davis resigned because Mahon found the airline at fault, when Mahons findings were overturned he was invited to resign, and he did.

Look at the very first post of the thread.

"The advisory group received a draft of the report reviewed by two pilots with polar and whiteout flying experience, working independently of each other.

"They came up with some very interesting conclusions that basically said that poor old Peter Mahon had got it wrong," he said.

Former head of the department Gerald Hensley said the advisers felt there were problems with Mahon\'s logic and told Muldoon who said they should have a closer look.

The consulted pilots argued that only one person flew the aircraft "and that\'s the pilot," he said.

"From all that we did have some differences with Justice Mahon\'s argument that the plane, in his phrase I think, \'was programmed to fly into the mountain from the moment it left [New Zealand"
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How does one programm a plane to fly into a mountain?? surely that is what the crew are in the front for, to make sure it does not fly into a mountain.

Last edited by prospector; 29th Jan 2008 at 20:08.