REPORT ON PLANES
Air Force View The Royal New Zealand Air Force did not endorse the suggestion that there was a close brush between five of its Devons and a National Airways Corporation Viscount over Templeton last .month, a senior spokesman for the Air Force said at Wigram yesterday. The service believed that this part of the incident was distorted throughout, he said. “The matter is being handled in Wellington by the Civil Aviation Division of the Ministry of Transport and is still under investigation. We understand that an official statement will soon be made which will put the incident in its proper perspective," said the spokesman The incoming chairman of the Christchurch branch of the Airline Pilots’ Association (Captain D. W. Barri -aid that the system of reporting incidents had the confidence of all pilots. It was unfortunate that the incident in question had been made public before the investigation had been completed. He said that the problem of aircraft control at airfields had been under consideration for some time and a meeting in Wellington today would discuss all aspects of air traffic control. The meeting was convened before the Templeton incident occurred and was not just to discuss this incident.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31974, 29 April 1969, Page 1
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