Prejudgment of crash ‘stupid’
PA Wellingtonil |1 Air New Zealand’s chief executive (Mr M. R. Davis)" yesterday angrily denied ; there was any information : so far available explaining ii why his company’s DCIO 1 aircraft crashed on Mount, i Erebus, killing all 257 people j aboard. I Anyone who attempted to] prejudge the cause was either 1 very brave or “bloody li stupid,” Mr Davis said. ;< He had been ybsked to 1 comment on a London “Sun-i’ day Times” article saying 1 that the last three messages,, from the plane overwhelm-/ ingly suggested that Captain/ T. J. Collins and his crew . misjudged their position by.
,20 miles, confusing Mount Byrd with Mount Erebus. According to the “Sunday! Times,” Captain Collins began final descent towards Scott Base too early, believing the plane had passed Mount Erebus, when in fact ,it had passed Mount Byrd. Mr Davis dismissed the article as “speculative.” ; “Nobody can determine, from the information so far, ! the flight path before the crash,” he said, at the Heretaunga golf course where he was attending the New Zealand Open, co-sponsored by! Air New Zealand and the! Shell Oil Company. “There is no information! that w'ould w’ith any accuracy determine the actual cause,” he said.
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