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New Zealanders are angry with AIr NZ over aircraft rego's
Today on TV3 the general public and the passengers who fly there nations airline air new zealand have lashed out at the companies CEO Luxton over the use of two aircraft invovled in crashes over thirty years ago. The new Boeing 787-919 Dreamliners will have the DC8 - DC10-30 rego's put on them. Two of them are ZK-NZB a DC8 rego which crashed on training at NZAA in 1966 The other being ZK-NZP a DC10-30 lost on MT EREBUS killing 257 passengers in 1979. Most peole in NEW ZEALAND object to it… (www.usatoday.com) Mais...30 years and somebody ought to say get over it, but it is odd that the numbers are even still available to use.
Doesn't bother me but NZ is a small country with only 4.4 million people and one of the highest aviators per population. The problem is Erebus is hugely contentious still having those with rose coloured glasses on and those that are truly objective. It was compounded by ANZ at the time (1979) trying to hide a mistake they made.
The point of the matter is the aircraft rego has being taken off from the registary and ANZ are well informed of this bit if they do try to use it. It will be void according to the FAA and the CASA
Correct when the aircraft plane maker back when it was produced or came of the production line and sold to the carrier it is recorded with its new rego. History dates back to 1974 ZK -NZP delivered to ANZ it was a young aircraft only five years old at the time it was written off and this was recorded with the plane maker at that time Mc Donnell Douglas who has the entry as a WO incident aircraft. So the rego can not be used again that goes for the AA DC 10 flight 191 in Chicargo the same year ANZ lost there aircraft they cannot use this rego
? Really? Air New Zealand shame on you.