Don't you begin to get the idea that the whole operation from top to bottom was cluster f**k?
I got that impression when I watched either of the 2 documentaries about the crash, or watched the Aftermath mini-series, or read the Report of the Royal Commission by Justice Mahon, or Verdict on Erebus by the same author, or Impact Erebus by Gordon Vette, or The Erebus Papers by Stuart Macfarlane, or Chapter 5 of Air Disaster (Vol 2) by Macarthur Job, or Chapter 9 of Air Disasters by Stanley Stewart, or Readers Digest Nov 1984 edition feature article by Maurice Shadbolt. Even Chapter 5 "Recommendations" of the Aircraft Accident Report No. 79-139 by Office of Air Accidents New Zealand (ie the "Chippendale report") leaves you with that impression.