The Civil Aviation Authority is being accused of misleading the public about the number of helicopter inspectors on its staff when a fatal crash killed seven people in 2015.
It originally said there were two, who were stretched by big workloads. But now it transpires there were at least six people who could do the job.
A Transport Accident Investigation Commission report into the crash criticised the authority for its lax inspections of the helicopter operator, saying it overlooked failures and did not enforce the rules ahead of the crash on Fox Glacier. Michael Cropp reports.
