Below comment is spot on. Bureaucrats are a scourge on life.
The book "The Erebus Papers' remains a most instructive discussion on the lengths and breadths to which those at the top will go to cover their @r$e when all the holes in the swiss cheese align. Political interference all the way to the highest offices in the Commonwealth was exposed. They even tried to have the Royal Commissioner declared insane for his unfavourable, yet astute, judgment.
It is interesting, many comments on here relate to 'letting things lay'. The problem is this - had an honest, open, transparent and morally correct path been taken by ANZ starting from the moment the accident occurred then these sort of discussions would unlikely be taking place now. The fact is that ANZ were nothing short of dispicable and morally irreprehensible, and so were Chippendales abilities...257 people died, and the names, reputations and legacy of the Pilots on that flight were stained, tarnished and trashed for no better reason than that they were sadly rostered on that day.
Thank god for Peter Mahon is all I can say.
The truth does deserve to be told, just because Chippendale has died does that mean the lives of the 257 should be forgotten?
Today ANZ is a completely different beast, Fyfe has worked miracles and the airline has achieved goals and milestones they should and can be very proud of. The airline is a truly remarkable outfit, and I agree that 'history' shouldn't be allowed to tarnish an organisation 32 years down the track. But sadly history can be described as an 'event, occurence, episode in time'. Erebus will always be part of ANZ's history, no matter what people will say, and history tends to contain positive and negative lessons and impact on life, sometimes centuries after the event.
Regardless of opinion, may the souls of the 257 continue to be remembered and may they sleep in peace.