Air New Zealand handler failed to check all cargo weight on international flight

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Air New Zealand initiated an investigation after it found that its Fiji hander had failed to check the weight of about a third of a 27-tonne shipment of cargo before the flight took off. The report found that the government-owned handler, Air Terminal Services, had ...

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  • Andy Robins

    January 23, 2015 at 2:25 am

    How can he not be dismissed, there is strong indications that other flights have left without the total cargo being weighed.
    Shippers/Agents have been known to try and shave volume at times, but that is a pure financial loss to the carrier.
    If it is known they are not check weighing at the Export shed, could lead shippers/agents to shave off the dead weight, perhaps small at first, but greed can blur this line.
    Now you are into a trivial financial loss on cargo revenue, compared to loss of life.
    This guy should be in jail.

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