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TAIC issues urgent safety recommendation -hot air balloon maintenance

Wellington, New Zealand - After fatal accident near Carterton in January

Apparent anomalies in the maintenance of the hot-air balloon involved in January’s fatal accident near Carterton have led the Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) to recommend to the Director of Civil Aviation that he make an urgent check of hot air balloon maintainers’ practices and satisfy himself of the airworthiness of New Zealand’s 74 hot air balloons. TAIC chief commissioner John...

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Rome, Italy, 02/28/2012 20:16
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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