If they have given the appearance of being compliant it means they have been pulling the wool over the regulators eyes. How do you get away with that?
Perhaps it has something to do with the owner being a former northern section FOI? I certainly agree though that there has been a massive failure of the system, this should have been discovered YEARS ago. Once a certain person put pen to paper with the aforementioned allegations, CASA could no longer sweep it under the rug.