Leady,
Nothing imaginary about that. For some FOIs its a CAsA cultural practice.!!
for example....
A certain type of aircraft has a large, one piece, (singular) elevator, 3.72 mtrs long.
THREE AWIs of supreme aircraft knowledge and observational skills, saw a person looking at that elevator.
Three almost identical sworn statements to be used for a criminal conviction all state that 'they saw left and right elevators being removed and replaced' !!
Ms N Tredrea, Compilance and Enforcement finds that the failed case is just due to one AWI..inadvertently using the generic term elevators (plural) by mistake !
The infamous Head of Legal acrobatics and Spin Docteur Extrordinaire, Smart Aleck, postulates it was just ..'discrepancies in the wording' !
Hullo..?? were these northern awis , affected by the tropic sun, smoking something really good...or just plain liars.
You decide.
And over and above the Rule of Law,,,CAsA has the Law of Rules.
And when they want to do you over anything goes.
AND CAsA will go to any length to make sure they get away with it.
CYA 101 thru 120 and then some.