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Old 13th Nov 2017, 10:29
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AEROMEDIC
 
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I knew Peter very well. He and I worked together throughout Malaysia, Indonesia, PNG and Tasmania.
It came as a shock hearing of the accident as I knew him to be a good operator.
The owner of this company was entirely different. When a Hughes 500 crashed during ops in which the pilot was killed, he told the pilot's wife that the insurance she thought her husband had, was for the aircraft, not the pilot and offered her a pittance. When the pilot joined the company, the chief pilot told him that the company provided insurance for him. No point in paying TWO policies, he thought, so he dropped his own.
She tried taking him to court and the media but it didn't work out.
My time in PNG was short fortunately, as my principles had me return to working in OZ.
Peter stayed on and was planning to retire to Queensland when he died.

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