I shall ask a rhetorical question here......it is based upon a previous question that was asked about the Floats on the accident aircraft and the reply...that there might not. have been any installed. (We do not know if there were or were not.)
If it is discovered there were no floats installed....and had been removed for some unknown reason....what other deficiencies existed in the aircraft systems, equipment, procedures, and policies?
Very quickly....I can see the case for a very thorough FAA Investigation of that Operator....should there be no floats installed.
That would turn out very ugly in short order I would bet.
Disclaimer: Until we learn of the existence and serviceability of the float system....this is all supposition.
212Man.....just like a Bristow Bell 412 Crash in Nigeria as I recall....the one that did the Texaco Casevac into Port Harcourt and was not known to be missing until the Hospital began to inquire of the whereabouts of the patient they had been told to be ready to receive.