Bendalot.
it doesn’t take Einstein to put the two themes percolating in this thread together as a possible cause.
I‘m not saying that this is definitely the case the investigators will try and do that. Maybe this thread is the mentoring post any accident that used to happen at Rorkes, the ski club or the ‘tute when the old farts told more tales of woe learned through bitter experience. There are some valuable bits of aircraft certification and limitation that should be well understood by all.
But these discussions about a possible cause - even if not what happens to be the final cause - are valuable and needs to be mandatory reading for every pilot in the NT / Kimberley present and future. There will be two more wet seasons before the ATSB report comes out with any lessons learned. And even then it might be light on details (unlike the “probable cause” that other nations publish).
Last edited by compressor stall; 4th Jan 2023 at 10:37.