Dash-8 down: the inside Story of Ansett Flight 703

When the Dash 8 aircraft on Ansett flight 703 ploughed into a hillside in the Tararua Ranges in 1995, it left four people dead. It was New Zealand's most serious air crash since the Erebus disaster and it devastated the seventeen survivors, some of whom were seriously injured. After a high-profile court case, the pilot has been acquitted of manslaughter charges. In Dash 8 Down: The Inside Story of Ansett Flight 703, author Michael Guerin probes beneath the media reports to investigate what really caused Flight 703 to crash. Dash 8 Down also examines the use of the cockpit voice recorder (black box) in this criminal case - it was a world first and attracted keen attention from the world aviation community.