What a lot of people don't realise is that the ex contractor's hands were tied. Their insurance company refused to cover the aircraft flown into the strip unless the Wallaby situation was resolved.
Added to this was the flying rate was far in excess of the contracted rate. This added to the fact that the NTG would only cough up for the cheap plane option spelt disaster.
Clearly the NTG has a lot to answer for in this whole
fight. But what is the best defence? offence of course, make it seem that all the problems were that of the contractor and its aircraft.
