Conga line of suckholes
It is time that a royal commission into Australia's aviation decline was held.
CASA doesn't know how to regulate, ATSB no longer know how to investigate, and ASA no longer know how to navigate.
The past 10 years has seen a massive trend upwards in incidents, not to mention crashing Westwinds, Brasillia's and not far off our shoreline Dash 8's. This excludes the ongoing issues with a number of Australian Operators which is simply overlooked, dismissed due to potential political fallout or simply because the oversighting bodies are incompetent and incapable of recognizing risk.
How much is enough? How big must the smoking hole be?
As an absolute beginning there should be an immediate 'plank walking exercise' initiated that should include the removal of the CASA Director, Deputy Director, Associate Director, CASA Board, ASA Board, ATSB Commisioner and his two sidekicks, and Minister Fumblenese.This group has lost it's direction if it ever existed. Has nothing been learned from Lockhart and Seaview for Christ sake?
The systemic issues highlighted in the Norfolk 'special audit' are unbelievable. How the hell did CASA and the ATSB overlook this generated report? The Skull and Co are always talking the talk about safety systems, company cultures, the 'Swiss cheese' model etc, yet The Skull can only manage to get on TV and ramble on about the Captain James and overlook all the other evidence? What more proof do you need that the regulator is being run by out of touch and outdated pensioners. Time to put them to pasture. The ATSB has become an embarrassment. I feel for the last few 'old timers', the decent investigators being hamstrung and 'softened' by a spin spewing **** machine more concerned about playing hide the sausage with Government bureaucrats. And as for ASA, well at least Russell is gone, ran away like a spineless lamb but at least he went, but that doesn't alleviate the systemic issues at ASA. Then you have in politicians lingo 'the overarching' mucous that binds all this dross together in one tightly packed parcel of pony pooh - The Minister. What an embarrassment. No wonder the FAA wanted to downgrade Australia's safety level. This country's aviation ability to enforce, oversight and adjust safety, standards and systems is now probably worse than bloody China, Africa, Russia and Indonesia......Shame shame shame.
Tick tock
Last edited by gobbledock; 4th Sep 2012 at 04:52.
Reason: Walked head on into the biggest god damn elephant in the room I have ever seen!