para 377,
When you make statements such as
a) The Investigator actually had the skills to conduct such an investigation (which he didn't) and;
b) The Investigator was not a government footstool who was always going to ensure his investigation report blamed the crew otherwise his employer (the government) would be held liable and accountable and have to cough up a settlement amount to the deceased relatives, which at the time would have sent NZ broke.
The question of Ron Chippindales qualifications and experience obviously have to printed once again to counter such scurrilous utterings.
From John King's New Zealand Tragedies, Aviation.
The commissioner's assessment of his first witness ignored Chippindales considerable experience as a flight instructor and transport pilot in the RNZAF. He had been formally involved in military flight safety and accident investigation for several years before being seconded to similar duties in civil aviation, and his standing in the world community is such that as someone scrupulously fair and independent, he has been asked to help investigate some accidents of a particularly delicate political nature. (Recently, for instance, he was appointed to the five strong United Nations team to investigate the loss of the Korean Airlines Boeing 747 airliner, FlighKAL007, shot down by a soviet fighter near the Island of Sakhalin in 1983)