Well Senator X comes through again, got to give him top marks for trying to keep the buggers honest!
Senate Committees – Parliament of Australia
Here's an exercise that took me all of..ohhh ten minutes to do and is very much relevant to the Pelair Norfolk Island ditching and the ATSB.
This small exercise highlights the issue of the ATSB becoming a mere lapdog to the CASA and the damage that the MOU is doing:
Up till now
Timeframe: 01/01/2011- 23/09/2012
Safety issues and actions
Ten years before
Timeframe: 01/01/2001- 23/09/2002
Safety issues and actions
As can be seen there were 8 pages or a 154 entries in the same time frame 10 years before, of those there were 63 entries directly related to CASA. That is in stark contrast from 01/01/2011- 23/09/2012 where we have a total of 10 entries, none of which were directly related to the CASA.
Should slot quite nicely into (b), (c) and (d)...
Terms of Reference
On 13 September 2012, the Senate agreed that the following matters be referred to the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by 29 November 2012:
(a) the findings of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau into the ditching of VH-NGA Westwind II, operated by
Pel-Air Aviation Pty Ltd, in the ocean near Norfolk Island airport on 18 November 2009;
(b) the nature of, and protocols involved in, communications between agencies and directly interested parties in an
aviation accident investigation and the reporting process;
(c) the mechanisms in place to ensure recommendations from aviation accident investigations are implemented in
a timely manner; and
(d) any related matters.