And another one of the holes in this Swiss cheese that has not been discussed is the fact that ANZ could well have only used two senior, or management pilots for these flights. They then would have accumulated some experience in AntArctic conditions.
But, it is a known fact that ALPA put pressure on the Company to share these flights around the senior captains. This in itself sounds a fairly innocuous thing to do, but surely shows up why all the other operators going to the ice required a minimum of three trips as an observer or first officer before going down as P1
Dozywannabe,
The CVR tapes were obviously not easy to interpret. One of the reasons being that there were up to eight different voices recorded. What were all these people doing in the cockpit at this critical time??
The remark attributed to First Officer Lucas, was to those who knew him, just the way he would react if he did not agree with something, in this case the descent procedure.
Your insistance that Ron Chippendale and Capt Gemmel were involved in some sort of conspiracy is ridiculous. The one third to CAA and 2 thirds of the cost to ANZ of the enquiry, that Mahon awarded to be paid to the estates of Collins and Cassin, and some of that to cover the costs of NZALPA, and the $150,000 fine to ANZ, were thrown out by the Appeal Court, and upheld by the Privy Council because as they stated there was no evidence of , or as they stated "No clear proof " of any plan of deception.