Jinglie # 569 - I just read the submissions and it troubles me as to why two guys could get it right, but the government with unlimited resources couldn't sort it! The Hearings later this month will be interesting, to say the least!!!
If, and it's a big if the enquiry can join the dots between Lockhart and Pel Air, the wheels will come off. Not just the present bunch will be for the ministerial high jump. The ICAO and every other responsible NAA will simply refuse to allow Australian aircraft anywhere near their airspace. Just the fact that they failed to issue a caution on the survivability, life vest and life raft debacle is enough. It would have been very nice to send a neatly worded report out.
Dear Sirs, we recently had a ditching event involving a West wind jet. We noted the following issues. The poor CRM of the flight crew, the life vests, the lights, the whistles the evacuation procedures, the lost life raft, the problems locating the passengers, the problems with weather forecasting, the problems with Radio communications.
There you go, 20 pages of helpful information. We should be getting bouquets not the brickbats of international public humiliation. What have we got, peurile personal attacks to discredit people who tried to point out the failings. We might get conned, but there other folk who are not so easily led about blindfold.
Argh! 'Steam off' - "Confirmed".