Australian Department of Defence, Navy has received the first progress report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Team (AAIT) following the Sea King crash on 02 April 2005 at Nias, in Indonesia.
There are a number of lines of inquiry being followed, all of which must be completed before there can be certainty over the cause of the crash.
Two components of the flight control system, which are normally connected together, were found to be detached from one another. Several parts of the hardware that normally connects them have not been located, however investigation of the wreckage is still going on and the flight controls will be subject to further analysis.
“I need to stress that the team
