12 Aug 2019

Civil Aviation Authority blasted over lack of accountability

From Morning Report, 6:15 am on 12 August 2019

An aviation group believes the leadership of the Civil Aviation Authority should be held more accountable for mistakes.

In May, the authority told the public it only had two helicopter inspectors on staff when a fatal crash on Fox Glacier killed seven people in 2015.

It said the two were stretched by big workloads. But now it appears there were at least six people who could do the job. Aviation New Zealand's chief executive John Nicholson told RNZ reporter Michael Cropp that figure should not have been so hard to provide.