prospector,
Your Post #366,
That was the Bolt/Kennedy report, far from a State Services Commission.
Sir Richard Bolt would have had to been the most highly qualified aviator in New Zealand at the time.
In the docu-drama "Erebus: The Aftermath", the following is said by the narrator towards the end of the series:
"The director of Civil Aviation, Captain Kippenberger, refuses to accept Mahon's finding that his division was also culpable. Civil Aviation's role in the didaster was reviewed by a State Services Committee. One month later, this committee, comprising a former chief of defence staff and a senior civil servant, absolve Civil Aviation of any culpability, despite acknowlodging what it called "Signficant shortfalls by the Division"".
Whilst I'm not implying that this series is the definitive version of events, surely TVNZ got their facts right before producing a programme portraying such controversial issues.
So perhaps Sir Richard Bolt is the person to which the programme referred (?)
Was this Bolt/Kennedy report released for public view, ie similar to the way both the Office of Air Accidents and Royal Commission Reports were available for sale to the public?