Mate, I know from experience how distressing it can be to see the registration of an aircraft involved in fatalities re-used, but at some point it becomes inevitable, so we just have to get over it. Some of these registrations are like an operators 'intellectual property' in some ways I guess, so they are keen to see the registration reused on another of their airframes. Personally I think of it as being a mite insensitive, perhaps even callous, but apparently a fact of life it is.
ZK-VAC (DHC-8) is now on the NZ register again with the same operator that sold ZK-VAC (C402C) to another operator that lost the aircraft in Foveaux Strait in 1998.
Last edited by RadioSaigon; 8th Jul 2008 at 08:38.