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NT airline challenges CASA grounding of Fly Tiwi
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PHOTO: Hardy Aviation subsidiary Fly Tiwi was grounded by CASA late last month because senior pilots failed a review test. (Supplied)
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Northern Territory airline Hardy Aviation is taking legal action against the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) over the grounding of its subsidiary, Fly Tiwi.
Fly Tiwi's daily flights to the Tiwi Islands were grounded by CASA late last month because senior pilots failed a review test.
Hardy Aviation has been working with CASA to resume flights.
Managing director John Hardy says it has has been left with no choice but to take action against the conditions imposed by CASA, which include a review of all Hardy Aviation aircraft and pilots.
"Our lawyers have put together a submission and we are are going to before a judge in the Federal Court to try and get some sort of stay of this suspension or these conditions," he said.
Mr Hardy says he has more than 120 staff, and they are worried about what is happening.
"Everybody, to a man and woman, is nervous and twitchy and tense," he said.
"What is so irritating about this whole episode is the lack of care by CASA for the people who are most affected."
He says his lawyers have put together a submission to try and get what he calls onerous conditions overturned.
"Our lawyers said: 'John, make no mistake, they are trying to shut you down; you read the letter carefully, it may be ambiguous but really CASA has lied to you. They don't want you to operate'.''
Mr Hardy says the grounding has left hundreds of people in Tiwi Islands communities without freight and transport
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