Hopefully something will happen this time round, going back through past Coroners reports makes very sad reading, hopefully the next select committee investigating the department, due sometime in the next month or two will require answers to statements like this dated 25 Mar 2004.
"For the Coroner to criticise the CAA for not preventing an operator from failing to comply with its maintenance programme would be to radically shift the ultimate responsibility from the operator actually implementing the programme, to the regulator. This would be entirely contrary to the philosophy behind the Civil Aviation Act
1990"
From Coroners report 30 Oct 2002.
"Such report records that there is evidence of poor aviation safety culture in New Zealand, particularly with small-operators. It was concluded by the Commission in its report that CAA should have taken regulatory action against United Aviation, given the many shortcomings identified by successive CAA audits."
From personal dealings with the CAA when it was pointed out that requirements under the act were not being complied with, and complete lack of any action from CAA, one must ask what is their interpretation of
" Philosophy behind the Civil Aviation Act"
Prospector