Navigation for Insight

Tom McCready (left) and Andrew McGregor - independent air accident investigators at dig site Fox Glacier in March 2014

Tom McCready (left) and Andrew McGregor - independent air accident investigators at dig site Fox Glacier in March 2014. Photo: Peter Newport

Flying plays a key role in New Zealand's economy, and safety is critical, not just to confidence in the tourism industry, but to how safe we all feel when we fly.

But as Peter Newport reports in part-one of a two-part series, questions are being raised about how air crashes are investigated and prevented after a series of deaths in recent years.