Sunfish,
There is a much bigger picture in all of this. Due process of law can be sidestepped, ignored, perverted, corrupted.
Unfortunately many aviation businesses have suffered financial ruin for the sport of some of the regulator's misfits.
I commend to you the "Phelan Papers", Vols 1 & 2, to give you an insight and understanding of what can and does happen.
Contact Paul Phelan, editor, Australian Flying for an electronic copy.
This document was distributed to most politicians, and large numbers within CASA.
If due process of law is followed in this case, so be it.
Understand that the regulator is going to be investigated, precipitated by this tragedy.
Understand that, like the Cole inquiry into AWB, no public servant,
no minister, no MP will be held accountable for their actions, or lack there of.
In a parallel to the Cole Inquiry, the heads of some corporate directors will be delivered on a plate, to sate and appease.
And like the Cole inquiry, those on a publicly funded salary, who should have and or could have done something,
will be spared the indignity of accountability.
All that we can hope for is a Judicial Inquiry, not a Royal Commission.
That will be the only way to introduce the concept of accountability to the regulator.
regrettably, this is how our country is now run.