Ladies and Gents,
3A Conditions for passenger-carrying charter operations to remote
Islands
3A.1
Each certificate authorising charter operations for the carriage of passengers is
subject to the condition that an aeroplane operated under the certificate is to
carry passengers on a flight to a remote island only if:
(a) the aeroplane has more than 1 engine; and
(b) the total amount of fuel carried by the aeroplane at the start of the flight is
not less than the minimum safe fuel for the aeroplane for that flight; and
(c) the alternate aerodrome for the aeroplane for that flight is not an aerodrome located on a remote island.
Has anyone missed something here (hint: read the title)
OK if you missed it the key words are passenger-carrying charter operations
This flight was a medivac or air ambulance, therefore Aerial Work.
Check the CASA website for Pel-Air AOC and you will find that they are approved for Aerial Work- Ambulance Functions- ISRAEL 1124 1124A.
CAO 82 simply does not apply here, with regard to remote islands
Like Keg and others have said, get off of their case, they and their pax are alive, and looks like Capt James and F/O Culpit did an amazing job.
Let the investigation run its proper course. If the crew Pel-Air or CASA or others are subsequently found culpable, then let due process follow, but
It is insulting that those without facts, just hype, media spin, bar room speculation and “knows someone who knows someone” can have such positive conclusions as to what definitely caused this accident.
BTW if you are “knows someone who knows someone” you have a duty to be discussing it with either CASA or ATSB, certainly not here