Advance,
Thank you! If you posted a link (underlined), I could not access it. May be my ongoing and increasing dementia.
However the coroner’s office has been very helpful and I believe there is a weblink available for people not able to attend in person. One can watch it just like Senate Estimates, not that I’ll be using it and it does raise some issues…
I’ve been assured the inquest is open to the general public, not that I have a “seat” at the table, it will be a case of quiet observation whilst there and reflection after each day.
Just like Global Warming, I am not optimistic about this inquest but I still have hope, if only for the relatives of the four pilots and also for the air traffic controller. My analysis would indicate those desires are not mutually exclusive…
I expect that hope to be extinguished after the inquest. I expect it to be another VH-TNP / Benalla.
The ATSB report in my opinion is full of omissions and misinformation. I am not suggesting a conspiracy, merely (like a lot of things in Australia) severely flawed by a combination of seeming incompetence, mediocrity and self interest. I cannot see any other reason for the strange content and simplistic conclusions.
The only good news is that the inquest has been given the varsity i.e. Justice John Cain, the Chief Coroner of Victoria.
However, if the right witnesses aren’t called and the right questions aren’t asked coupled with accurate physical evidence; it doesn’t matter how good the intentions are
“…the road to hell is paved….” etc.
As far as I’m concerned
were FS still in place the accident would not have happened. That in itself is a sad indictment of the “advancement” of policy in regard to aviation safety specifically to airspace in Australia below 10,000 ft since the early 1990s. Technology and surveillance are not always “an advancement” especially in the transition from humans to automation.
I am not sure having a front row seat was a good idea and was in fact really just a “poisoned” chalice.
Sigh!