Vale Jeremy Cook

It is with extreme sadness that I must report that Jeremy Cook, an aircraft engineer that spent time with Talair at Goroka and Air Niugini in Moresby many years ago was killed when an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 went down off the coast of France. Jeremy was working for the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand at the time. In his role at CAA he processed the entry of aircraft into the New Zealand civil aviation system, assessing applications for the issue or change to aircraft airworthiness certificates.

Let us also remember his fellow New Zealanders - Captain Brian Horrell, Noel Marsh, Murray White, Michael Gyles and the two pilots from Germany who were also on board. A spokesman for XL Airways which had leased the plane off Air New Zealand said the company would not release the names of the two German crewmen out of respect for the victims and their families.