PETALING JAYA: Two Australian investigators who signed off on the Double Six tragedy report in 1976 died two months later in a crash involving a similar aircraft.
The report declassified by the Australian government shows that it was prepared by Government Aircraft Factories acting chief designerThe two died in a plane crash on Aug 6, 1976, two months after the Double Six tragedy while they were testing a GAF N24 Nomad in Victoria, Australia.
The report said take-off was normal before eyewitnesses on the ground observed the tailplane tabs fluttering and an unidentified component separating from the aircraft before it crashed. “How could it be flying illegally when they had and were operating two Boeing 707s and two Grumman G-IIs at that time?” he said.Captain Nizam Ghandi Nathan, the son of Captain Gandhi and also a retired pilot, when asked about the report, said, “No comment.”
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