So an interesting CRM issue,
1.the aircraft is dispatched by an engineer surely he would have said something prior to pulling the connection to the aircraft.
2. if the aircraft departed from Rwy 32 it would have taxied past the Fire Station Tower, now surely they could have called up the aircraft on the Ctaf frequency, or contacted Jetstar and got them to call the crew. Would have been to bad if the aircraft had a problem and needed the fire crew obviously they were to busy doing whatever firies do when you are at work.
3. where was the aerodrome safety officer asleep or having a feed or didn't give a f@#k
4. Did the crew activate the lights and then there been a power failure and the lights have cycled off,did the tower switch the lights over to the AFRU system when they went home?
Great to see that an airport that has 1,000,000 pax a year has a control tower that closes at 9.00 pm or even earlier when they can't staff it, airport fire service that takes no notice of whats going on the aerodrome, "hey Fred whats that glowing in the dark at the end of the airstrip", "dunno Barry I am watching Home and Away", must be a great little cash cow for Air Services Australia !!!!!