His company, renamed Skydive Fox, fitted restraints to its planes some time ago.
"I am very interested to see the coroner's report, I'd like to see how it differs from the TAIC (Transport Accident Investigation Commission) report."
Australian woman Karen Bourke, whose son Glenn died in the crash, told Radio NZ today that Civil Aviation had recommended mandatory restraints back in 2003.
"There's not a passenger plane anywhere in the world that doesn't have a seatbelt, except in New Zealand."
In May, the TAIC ruled that the Skydive NZ plane in the fatal crash had been illegally modified and that two of the skydive masters had cannabis in their systems. The subsequent inquest heard that parts of the Skydive NZ plane, including the control stick, were buried in a paddock soon after the crash at the direction of the TAIC.
The dead were: Tourists Patrick Byrne, 26, from Ireland, Glenn Bourke, 18, from Australia, Annika Kirsten, 23, from Germany, and Brad Coker, 24, from England; Skydive masters Adam Bennett, 47, Michael Suter, 32, Christopher McDonald, 62, and Rod Miller, 55, of Greymouth, and the pilot Chaminda Senadhira, 33, of Queenstown.
- The Greymouth Star