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Crab - Who might you be alluding to in respect of your demented baboon comment? Who do you think has access to flight plan data? Do you for instance expect the AD/Minister to be at work at 0600 to check every day's flight plans??
Maybe Flight support ought to have given the Chief Minister a ring to prevent this national disaster!
Whilst obviously I am not in possession of all the facts, it appears that the department/minister knew that EMX was in trouble and had been in talks about offering various help. Now surely it would have been prudent to exercise a tighter credit control regime and make sure that the department and ultimately the taxpayer were protected to the best of their ability rather than the AD speaking to press saying that basically nothing is seriously wrong. Presumably the department is a creditor and should imo have protected itself better.
The minister/AD do not need to be there in person but surely it rang alarm bells with someone that a major asset was leaving suddenly and anyway why should the AD not be there at 6am. It should not be a 9 to 5 job.