ATSB
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CASA does not conduct accident investigations, however they will be waiting for the ATSB reort to determine if they can get involved.
ATSB investigates and reports in the interests of Air Safety and makes recommendations to reduce the likelihood of recurrance.
CASA are not particularly interested in air safety, their preference is enforcement.
ATSB will normally release a draft report to affected and interested parties.
This correctly gives the affected and interested parties the opportunity to proof read and advise of any inaccuracies in the report.
The final ATSB report will be clinical and make observations and recommendations. (They nailed CASA in the Lockhart River tragedy)
CASA will quickly take up any regulatory breaches identified except their own.
We seemed to have forgotten the Whyalla Air tragedy, where numerous "experts" formed numerous and wrong opinions as to the cause.
History tells us that Whyalla Air were some of the early victims of faulty Lycoming crankshafts
that had granular defects during manufacture leading to eventual catastrophic failure.
Last edited by Mainframe; 10th Jan 2010 at 23:17.
Reason: typo