AIR RULES INFRINGED
Three Killed In Crash "The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, Feb. 27. The pilot of a Beechcraft Musketeer plane which crashed near Matawai last March killing all three occupants, infringed minimum regulation safe heights and visual flight rules, according to the report of the chief inspector of air accidents. Wing Commander O. J. O’Brien.
His report says the pilot, Wallace James Gibson, did not comply with flight authorisation log procedures of the Royal New Zealand Aero Club. Killed with him were Malcolm Lindsay D’Arcy Black, who also held a private pilot’s licence, and Robert Maitland Neill.
The report says that Mr Gibson, flying from Hamilton to Napier and back, had been told by authorities that if he struck deteriorating weather on the return flight he was to fly back to Napier or land at Wairoa, and not to fly to Gisborne or attempt a flight around the East Cape.
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Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 21
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