What is unacceptable is a manufacturer who trumpets compliance with it, when they know the reality is the opposite.
The families case, settled out of court, was not so much the trumpeting, as the 30 minutes dropped off the brochures after the test failure, but the failure to come clean about the true 'capabilities' of the S-92 and thus induce false confidence.
Meanwhile the shcking news in Canada is that the Wells Inquiry has been nobbled by the TSB who don't want the Judge to analyse their involvement in the Australian incident. How may accident investigators get to see the failure they investigate 8 months in advance of the accident?
Did the TSB really protect Canadian citizens as per their charter?
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Did CHC really take the action necessary in a timely and responsible manner?
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See more generally:
CBC News - Nfld. & Labrador - N.L. chopper's flaw known in 2008