There really needs to be some kind of rule introduced to safeguard against possible company stakeholders having strong influences over operational matters.
A good effective SMS should be able to nip these issues in the butt before they get out of hand, however in the Transair case SMS wasn't a regulatory requirement at the time and the whole SMS philosophy would have been in it's infancy stage in PNG me thinks. Is SMS now a mandatory certification requirement for all AOC holders in PNG now?