An army major who knew airmen killed in a military training exercise last year has broken down during a public inquiry, as he hit back at “sensationalist” claims about what may have led to the fatal crash.
Army experts have defended ‘risky’ equipment at an inquiry into the fatal Taipan helicopter crash off Lindeman Island during a night-time exercise.
Major Michael Perkins was one of the witnesses called to give evidence on Monday. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire According to the program, an experienced test pilot within the army claimed the latest software upgrade carried significant risks, with an experienced test pilot finding that if an aircraft was in a turn, the displayed angle of bank washed out if he looked left or right might be misrepresented.
“I was gonna have to fly that thing for real at night over water in a degraded visual environment, I was happy to do that,” he said. “I think it’s unlikely that somebody would look out the side and be disoriented by the attitude information that was displayed,” he said.
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