No coronial inquest into Air Force officer's Waiouru death

Flight Sergeant Andrew Bruce Forster. Photo / Supplied

No coronial inquest will be held into the death of a senior Air Force non-commissioned officer who died in 2009 when he was marking artillery rounds at the Waiouru Military Camp.

Flight Sergeant Andrew Bruce Forster, of Palmerston North, was killed when he, and a colleague, were marking the location of an unexploded shell they had found the day before in the Waiouru training area in the central North Island.

His death was reported to the coroner because of the circumstances of his death, but coroner Tim Scott said in a statement today he was satisfied the death had been investigated by the Army Court of Inquiry and a further inquiry was not likely to achieve a different outcome.

The army inquiry was unable to find why the shell exploded while it was being marked.

- NZPA