ERROR OF JUDGMENT
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- " ■ 9 - Fatal Crash at Stratford INQUIR? BOARD'S FINDING
(By Telegraph—]
• WELLINGTON, ThW Day.^ _ The xeport of the board of inquiry in the" Stratford air crash in which Mr P. J. Nathan WaS killed and the pilot injured on June 2 was released to-day. It finds that the pilot was guilty of an error of judgment In failing to /turn back earlier, but does net recommend any interference with the pilot's lience. It says that he failed to exercise aound judgment when, after leaving the railway liue near Eltham, he proceeded on his course when the ceiling Was becomiug progressively lower and the air more bumpy. The proper course Wouid hdve been to rfeturn to Hawera dhd obtain reports on which to base his further course of action. Th© repOi-t saye also that the Club inspeetor ht Wellington would have adopted a more • prudent course if he hftd insieted on postponement of time of departure until a furthCr and fully detailed l'eport of favourable weather jjoaditions was, ayaii|b,hfa ^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 5
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