Inquiries & Recommendations

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Modify the engine room alarm indicating system to ensure the watchkeeper can detect an alarm from anywhere in the engine room

Make available to each qualified helicopter pilot a copy of the article on uncommanded yaw published in Flight Safety in 1985.

ensure that his Safe Ship Mangement surveyors ensure that the minimum manning and operating limits, of all client vessels are clearly notified in the Safe Ship Management documentation.

In order to reduce confusion and the possibility of misinterpretation, develop a policy to rationalise and simplify the current maritime rules concerning the crewing and watchkeeping requirements for non-SOLAS vessels, and the limits in which they operate.

Critical components in a fixed CO2 gas fire fighting system such as control valves can cause serious harm or immobilise a vessel if they fail. It is a concern that such components are only required to be internally examined every 5 years and are not required to be tested at the design operating pressure at all.

The company require restraining of at least the left propeller on SAAB 340 aircraft at all times during turnaround.

On 26 February 2025, the Commission recommended to the Director of Civil Aviation at the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand that they promote, through the appropriate International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) forum, consideration for the requirement and implementation for Vortex Ring State alerting systems to be installed in new helicopters.

Require Airways New Zealand to enhance its procedure for handling flight progress strips with the aim of increasing the time given to aerodrome controllers to assimilate the details of departing traffic.

Clarify the requirements for the application and securing of handbrakes on ADB and ADK cars, and ensure they are appropriately signposted.

On 26 March 2025, the Commission recommended that KiwiRail review and improve the automatic carriage alarm system (TMS) to ensure it alerts the crew to faults.

Introduce a system to ensure that the pilots who operate on the Manukau Harbour are sufficiently familiar and experienced with the harbour to undertake the pilotage.

He require training and checking organisations to adopt height margins beneath cloud as a topic for flight checks, such as those carried out in accordance with CA Regulation 76, where it is relevant and appropriate to the operation involved.