Ben's report seems somewhat sharper when it comes to this.
ATSB processes to be independenty reviewed | Plane Talking
The TSB will, it is to be hoped, consider the evidence tendered to that Senate inquiry by the chief commissioner of the ATSB which lead to the committee devoting an entire chapter of their report to their dissatisfaction with his testimony.
At the end it still looks like the ATSB might get pineappled. Can only hope so.
Whether the very bad smell created by the conduct of the ATSB and CASA in relation to the Pel-Air investigation can be removed by the independent and external review by the TSB remains to be seen.
The ATSB statement makes no direct mention of Pel-Air, and doesn’t disclose any response to the recommendations of the Senate committee that was so dismissive of the worth of Dolan’s testimony.
Those recommendations included, in short, the ATSB re-opening the crash inquiry and doing its job fully and diligently.
The TSB’s report will be published.
It isn’t know whether that publication will be preceded by the ATSB reviewing the final draft and having an opportunity to change it.
For the the sake of an external and independent review, it is to be hoped that this will not be the case, lest its independence and externality be cast into doubt.