Inquiries & Recommendations

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Consider the need to advise any B767 operator who has main undercarriage assembled in service that have been involved in runway excursions onto unprepared surfaces to dismantle such assembled and test them for evidence of corrosion and/or cracking.

Ensure that Council’s planning and consent procedures for future applications involving side roads and exits from private rights-of-way joining public roads in the immediate vicinity of railway level crossings include a requirement for the provision of adequate protection.

Change company policy to require clients to inform it of matters potentially affecting the status of safe ship management certificates, as prescribed in Rule Part 21 [Safe Ship Management] [original text referred to Part 20 in error].

Review the limiting dimensions of ships allowed to use the port to better reflect the PIANC guidelines.

Disused vector 01/19 on the Club's private strip at Mt Tarawera airstrip be marked with a white cross at each end to deter any pilot from attempting a landing on it.

Requires non-precision approaches at Queenstown to be re-evaluated to determine whether any rule exemptions or procedural requirements are necessary to enable safe circling manoeuvres.

As and when Maritime Rules Part 21 [Safe Ship Management] or Part 46 [Maintenance and Surveys] is reviewed, any amendments should include the provision that New Zealand registered ships operating outside New Zealand territorial waters maintain continuous certification.

On 26 June 2025, the Commission recommended that Maritime New Zealand investigate and submit papers as appropriate to the IMO (through the appropriate sub-committee) to promote standards that ensure sufficient quality assurance for rudder systems throughout the process of installation, alterations, major repairs and maintenance.

advise all operators of steam locomotives of the need to use borosilicate glass tubes in sight gauges, with all such gauges to have a safety screen in front of them.

Fit a device to the aft steering wheel to secure it against inadvertent operation. Such a device should be quick-release to allow instant helm control should it be required in an emergency.

The current requirements for communicating the status of main-line points at crossing stations within single-line automatic signalling territory results in a potential single point of failure where the consequences could be a high-speed rollover, derailment or collision.

Require a one time inspection of all aircraft which have a radio altimeter installed to determine whether the radio altimeter antennae are free from paint.