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Old 6th Mar 2014, 20:22
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Kharon
 
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The games afoot.

IOS super star – Sandilands – on Plane talking makes a couple of very notable points. It's worth the reading time. Steve (ALAEA Fed Sec) AOC protection and public safety are face cards and priceless.
Which raises the problem of Anthony Albanese as the Minister responsible for CASA, the safety regulator, and the ATSB, the supposedly independent safety investigator. Albanese is an embarrassment in relation to the on going scandal of the Pel-Air crash investigation, in which he failed to respond, as he had promised, to the detective work done by a Senate committee which found that CASA had withheld from the ATSB an internal document showing it had been so deficient in its oversight of the operator that a preventable accident had occurred.

It further found evidence that implied that the ATSB had complied with pressure from CASA to frame the pilot of the crashed jet with all the responsibility, and failed to consider all of the safety factors, nor even report on them in the form and detail required under international ICAO rules.

The entire Pel-Air scandal shows that CASA was not just incompetent but quite possibly in breach of Commonwealth law in suppressing information relevant to an air crash investigation.
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