CASA will get information today that should push the boundaries. I kid you not this is fair dinkum. Over the weekend a Qantas manager who is a LAME certified for aircraft maintenance checks on a plane several hours before the aircraft had even landed. He then went home and left the signed up package in the section.
This is what Qantas has become and I bet my left testicle that Qantas will back their manager to the hilt. Now as bad as this may seem, the very same manager is the only LAME in this country that I know who has previously had his licence suspended for carrying out unauthorized maintenance. You can read about it on this link -
Strange v CASA, AAT, 2002-04-12, Decision in full
Now lets put this is perspective. Good union member in Cairns places a witches hat fore and aft engine instead of at wingtip. Two minutes later he notices mistake and moves the hats. He was stood down for 3 weeks whilst they investigated the breach of a cardinal rule.
Then there is the cockpit door fiasco that is well discussed here.
This one will be interesting.