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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (45521)	1/4/2014 3:24:36 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Maurice Obviously you know nothing about flying an aircraft.. I have been an FAA Certified Flight Instructor for almost thirty years. That crash was discussed extensively here a number of years ago during Flight Refresher clinics of "what not to do". CFIT fortunately is pretty rare nowadays with the new avionics in large and now small aircraft taking advantage of GPS which did not exist back at the time that accident happened. It doesn't matter what the "controllers" said. It's still the responsibility of the PIC to know where the aircraft is every second! Eric en.wikipedia.org Official accident report[ edit] The accident report compiled by New Zealand's chief inspector of air accidents, Ron Chippindale, was released on 12 June 1980. It cited pilot error as the principal cause of the accident and attributed blame to the decision of Collins to descend below the customary minimum altitude level, and to continue at that altitude when the crew was unsure of the plane's position. The customary minimum altitude prohibited descent below 6,000 ft (1,830 m) even under good weather conditions, but a combination of factors led the captain to believe the plane was over the sea (the middle of McMurdo Sound and few small low islands), and previous flight 901 pilots had regularly flown low over the area to give passengers a better view, as evidenced by photographs in Air New Zealand's own travel magazine and by first-hand accounts of personnel based on the ground at NZ's Scott Base