News cutting : Latam Airlines Boeing 787 En-route incident

Source: SCMP

“My neighbour who was in the seat two over from me (係我隔離兩個位）, there was a gap in between us, as soon as I woke I looked, and he was on the ceiling and I thought I was dreaming,” Brian Adam Jokat said.

The New Zealand accident investigator said Chilean authorities had confirmed they had opened a probe into the flight (開file 查咩咩咩), and it was assisting with their enquiries.

A spokesperson for TAIC said because the incident on the Sydney-Auckland flight on Monday occurred in international airspace, it fell to Chilean accident investigation authority Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC) to open an inquiry.

Latam is based in Chile and the flight was due to continue on to Santiago after stopping in Auckland.

小筆記：

當航班飛到國際空域出事，就由果間airline base 既調查機構查。Btw, 美國就NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board), 香港就 Air Accident Investigation Authority (AAIA) under the Transport and Logistics Bureau, 英國就 AAIB (Air Accident Investigation Branch)

“black boxes” that will provide more information on the flight’s trajectory and communications between pilots.

Safety experts say most aeroplane accidents are caused by a cocktail of factors that need to be thoroughly investigated.