Mt Cook planes ‘not modified’
Mount Cook Airlines has been checking its aircraft after warnings that some aircraft might have faults in control mechanisms. But the airline said that the warning concerned a modification not made on its four Hawker Siddeley 7485. The warning was made after the crash last month of a Dan-Air HS74B in the Shetland Islands in which 17 people died. One of Mount Cook’s aircraft is on charter to DanAir, but it was not the one [that crashed. i British air crash investiga-
tors believe the crash may have been caused because the pilot had difficulty unlocking the flaps.
Mount Cook Airlines nas received advice from Hawker Siddeley, asking it to check the control lock system. “The advice is concerned with aircraft that have been fitted with a non-standard or modified system not as supplied by the manufacturer,” the airline’s engineering manager (Mr M. L. Jervis) said“Our aircraft are all fitted with the standard system as supplied by the manufacturer.”
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