Aircraft in ‘near miss’ at Wgtn airport
PA Wellington A possible aircraft collision was avoided'at Welling? ton on Sunday when an Air New Zealand Friendship on take-off swerved to avoid a light Grumman ' aircraft which taxied out on to the runway. Air New Zealand’s director of flight operations, Captain David Eden, said he could not give accurate, details- as to the cause of the near miss, because an official inquiry
would have to determine the . facts. The. Regional Director of Civil •/ Aviation (airways operations), Mr E. B. Meachen, said the matter was now under investigation, but he thought one of the pilots had not been approached yet for his version of the events. Mr Meachen said that in cases such as this, the taped conversations between the aircraft and tower were impounded and transcripts
made. Reports were then requested from the aircrew and the tower. Once the cause was established, the matter was then dealt with either at regional level, or in serious cases, at head office level in the Ministry of Transport’s Civil Aviation Division. The division’s director has the power to suspend or cancel a licence, and' the Ministry may also decide to initiate a prosecution.
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