- there has been no formal exoneration of Captain Collins and his crew for their actions, and consequently no real lifting of the burden their families have had to carry ever since.
Why should there be an exoneration, as has been argued on this and other forums Justice Mahons reasoning was not correct, the change of waypoints was not the cause of the crash, the track created by the change of waypoint is irrelevant as using the AINS track below route MSA was not pemitted.
Well, the crew's families have had to live with those wounds for more than 30 years now, and it is time to heal them. Besides that, Captain Collins and his crew did not cause the crash, the navigational co-ordinates programming error did.
Rubbish, typical argument from followers of Mahons reasoning, without any appreciation of route MSA's, and the illegal use of AINS as a primary navigation aid below route MSA. What about the families of the Nav section, the nav section made mistakes but not mistakes that would have caused the crash if everybody else in the team had carried out their tasks properly.
Mr Dunne said he read Paul Holmes' book Daughters of Erebus which also calls on Parliament to exonerate the crew
If that publication is all the Mr Dunne bases his reasoning to call for an exoneration then no more needs to be said. .