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Old 5th Jan 2014, 06:48
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Dora-9
 
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Might be time to retire these old planes from carrying members of the public.
P005, I'm entirely with Griffo here, maybe you should settle down a bit? This is the steamroller-to-crack-a-walnut approach so beloved of CASA, what you're saying would effectively put a lot of decent and conscientious operators out of business, through no fault of their own.

Check the ATSB website - 15 incidents/accidents involving Tiger Moths in the last 43 years, with three involving an in-flight break-up (VH-TSG that we're talking about, VH-AJG on 16.2.2002 and VH-TMK on 28.2.1998) - of all of these VH-TSG is the ONLY commercial fatality in all of that period. Famously of little comfort to the victims, but the statistic surely speaks for itself.

Wouldn't it be better to await the investigation? Was the cause specific to VH-TSG, perhaps involving it's operational and maintenance history, or was it a generic "fault" involving all DH-82's? Even in the latter case and there isn't a simple (structural) rectification, there are far less dramatic precautions that could be taken, rather than an outright ban...

No hysterics and punishing innocent parties please, let's await the facts.
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