DC10 CRASH INQUIRY
PA Auckland The pilot of the fifth Antarctic flight was told at the DCIO crash inquiry yesterday that descending below the 6000 ft limit to 3000 ft was nothing to be ashamed of. Captain Ross Johnson, under cross-examination by Mr R. Maclaren, for the pilots’ families, was told he was not being criticised for his action. He agreed he had not infringed the safety of the flight by doing so, but it was contrary to his airline’s instructions, he said. The weather was clear and it was a sight-seeing flight. Captain Johnson said he believed he had the normal pilot’s discretion to descend for sight-seeing. Although he had done this in the prevailing circumstances, it would not be a normal routine discretionary descent for any later pilot to the ice, he said. ■
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