The QPS investigation and subsequent report into this accident was extremely thorough and factual. However the limited assistance from the bureau and regulator appears to show signs of negligence, amorality, obfuscation etc..etc that beggars belief!
Here is a couple of quotes of note from the QPS report:
The priorities applied when considering an aviation investigation reflect the ATSB’s primary focus on enhancing safety with respect to fare paying passengers. Subject to the considerations detailed above, the ATSB will allocate its resources in line with level “1” being the highest (i.e. large passenger aircraft). Level “3” includes commercial fare paying operations, in which this incident could be described as.
Whilst serious and fatal investigations involving fare paying passengers carries a high priority, due to the operational nature of this incident, the ATSB decided to preserve their resources and not investigate this matter.
"
due to the operational nature of this incident",
.....in otherwords there was potentially ugly implications if the bureau decided to investigate!
15.4 No Crash Investigation by CASA
On the 15th January 2009, Senior Constable Bourke was advised by ****** ***** that CASA’s legal department had decided that no further material would be released to the QPS to assist with this investigation. That day, Senior Constable Bourke wrote to ******* *****, Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CASA Operations requesting further assistance. Senior Constable Bourke did not receive a reply.
"Senior Constable Bourke did not receive a reply."
....and isn't that just typical!
Yep the Coroner sure has got his work cut out with this one.....full marks to the QPS Forensic Crash Unit though!
