If these actions were illegal, a safety threat to the public and known to CASA, why wasn’t the operator prosecuted years ago?
What is the explanation? Lack of staff? Inefficiency? Incompetence? Or worse; laziness, capriciousness, corruption, cowardice. Given CASAs mission, isn’t this accident a damning example of failure to protect the public? Shouldn’t the operators and pilots have been publicly hanged by CASA after the detection of the first bunt?
What are we paying CASA for if not safety?