Kharon said: The Senate is probably now much more interested in who orchestrated this embarrassing, 'unfortunate' episode and why?
Why indeed?? There seems to be several conflicting interested parties within Fort Fumble itself but everyone knows that ultimately the buck stops with the bloke at the top. However it was shown time and time again in the hearing transcript that even 'Big Mack' was being kept out of the loop or loops.
But the bigger breaks in the communication chain were further down the ranks and in the conflicting information displayed in the Special Audit vs the Investigation report (referred to by the Senators as the 'Hidden report').
The following letter to the ATSB from the head honcho of the investigation team is an example of where there appears to be a disconnect or cross purpose between the investigation vs the Special Audit vs the ATSB:
The revealing line there is the.."
CASA is not aware of any changes from Charter to Airwork in respect of Air Ambulance functions".
This suggests that even at the early stages of the investigation that the investigators already had the blinkers on and did not consider that flight classification of an operation was worthy of their consideration i.e. we've already got our man. Which would also appear to be totally contradictory to the Special Audit findings.
So I can count about three interested party loops going on here and each has been tasked/motivated in a different way, which is why it all ended up such a cluster fcku!
