Originally Posted by
AEROMEDIC
..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...
Just to be clear, that story is attributable to a well known former Governor of Eastern Highlands Provence who owns a helicopter company based in Goroka. They've had several fatal and other prangs over many years operating in PNG. This company is different to the company to which this topic is about.