Originally Posted by
rattman
Guess I can be smug and laugh at you. Richard Marles, Australian defence minister has just announced a permanent grounding of taipans. It was bleeding obvious to anyone with half a brain that taipan would be never fly again regardless of it being a technical or pilot error.
Congratulations. It would appear you are correct. Anyone with a full brain, probably like the Defence Minister, would have waited for facts from an investigation before making such a big decision on permanent grounding of a fleet.
The investigation will make for incredibly sad reading. Be interesting to see the flow on effects for the worldwide fleet airworthiness of NH90’s. No doubt, the flow on effects for battlefield lift capability in the Aus Army will be drastic. The bottleneck of training continues to restrict.