2015
Prospector,
The SOPs were a bit of a red herring. I think the judge painstakingly proved the "real" SOP was "give the passengers a good sightseeing time". Retired Capt Wilson (RCU) effectively conceded that, as I recall. Everybody knew what the punters were being given, thanks to AirNZs own publicity machine.
If AirNZ had programmed the INS McMurdo arrival waypoint as the Byrd reporting point, nicely always on USN ATC radars, it's difficult for any pilot action to break the safety of the overall system.
Flight crew mistakes were made, and I forgot to additionally add reliance upon INS track at all at FLT 015.
WW