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News VFR into IMC: Why does it Continue?

Angus Mitchell, Chief Commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) was not pleased to have to announce the conclusion of an investigation into the crash of a B206 Long Ranger in the Kosciuzko National Park. Here was another instance of a VFR pilot continuing flight into non-visual conditions. It had cost the lives of two people and destroyed the helicopter.

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