"The last rumour I heard was that the aircraft was on its 2nd flight test but it should have only had the one! It had been re-sprayed and was due to fly to Germany post successful flight / acceptance checks etc.(hence the 3 air nz engineers and 1 pilot onboard) I have also heard on the grapevine that the static ports had been blanked off (for re-spray) and may have been missed pre flight. Quite how the aircraft can fly for 90 minutes with these blocked and the problems not have come to light is a mystery? Maybe it upset the landing configuration (height and speed information way out) and the aircraft stalled. Would have thought it would have a RAW data backup from Inertia system?? Who knows?"
Think before writing please.
