High Profile Cases > Plane Crashes on Runway
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Plane Crashes on RunwayOn the 3rd of February 2006, A warbirds Devon crashed on landing at Ohakea aerodrome. Fortunately no one was injured. It had diverted there due to bad weather and the NZ CAA had charged the pilot with “Unnecessary endangerment” which the CAA alleged had crashed because of pilot error and which was supposedly related to the pilot pushing bad weather inappropriately. In May 2008 Andrew McGregor proved in court that the crash was not caused by pilot error but because of a mechanical problem that led to flap asymmetry on the final approach stages. The defendant was acquitted.
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