[Macarthur Job quoted by Brian Abraham.] What are we to make of a situation where a professionally qualified government authority, with statutory powers for the safe ordering of air navigation, can have its rulings overturned by legal but technically "lay" arbiters who do not carry that statutory responsibility?
FAQs The Mahon Report was originally shelved (unaccepted by Parliament) upon the report’s release in 1981. In 1999, Maurice Williamson tabled the Mahon Report in the NZ Parliament, which finally recognised the report as an official government report.
Mahon's report is an official document because it was eventually tabled, but Chippindale's is the official accident report, it was not "overturned". Williamson announced on television that the aircraft was doomed when it left New Zealand, and is most famous for his Rainbow-over-Pakuranga speech when Parliament redefined marriage for votes.
In science, something approaching the truth may be found in a statistical analysis of the data. Given exactly the same circumstances as Collins, how many pilots would do what he did?
Obviously we can only guess. What do you reckon, Brian?