Today's "Australian" newspaper:
LONG-standing problems of complacency in Australian army aviation were evident in a Chinook helicopter crash that killed a young soldier in Afghanistan last year, an inquiry into his death has been told.
Head of the investigation into the Chinook accident, Wing Commander Alf Jonas, said systemic failures in army aviation, including an unchecked level of complacency, were factors in a fatal Australian Black Hawk helicopter crash in Fiji in November 2006.
The Black Hawk crashed while attempting to land on the HMAS Kanimbla, killing pilot Captain Mark Bingley and Special Air Service Trooper Joshua Porter.
“It does not appear to the aviation accident investigation team that anything has changed in any of these matters,” Wing Commander Jonas told the Australian Defence Force commission of inquiry in Melbourne today.
“There have been attempts, of course, to fix the system, but in fact the systematic failures within army aviation have continued.”
But the question remains where are the MRH90's...?