scrubba:
Given the emerging story of the VARA ATR at Albury, what are the chances that the ATSB and CASA have found a deep enough part of Lake Hume to hide the CVR and FDR, given that everyone survived...
Classic scrubba...
If part of the somewhat disjointed thread rumours are indeed true it certainly paints for some disturbing parallels with PelAir:
Virgin plane suffers two mid-air incidents, one resulting in woman breaking leg
Updated Fri 7 Mar 2014, 8:12am AEDT
Map: Australia
An investigation is underway into a flight that left a Virgin Australia crew member with a broken leg, and another incident involving the same plane a few days later.
The female crew member was injured when the ATR-72 turbo prop encountered severe turbulence on a flight from Canberra to Sydney last month.
Virgin says the plane was inspected by an engineer and cleared to fly.
Five days later, during a flight to Albury in New South Wales, the pilot reported a possible bird strike.
He later found the aircraft had been damaged.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the plane remains on the ground at Albury.
The bureau is interviewing crew and maintenance personnel and examining the flight recorder.
Passing strange that the first incident (actually listed as an accident) is duly recorded (see
here & page 15 of weekly summary
here) and yet the ABC article listing a possible bird strike incident 5 days later is not recorded as such, rather it is listed pg 16
here as:
25/02/2014 * 201400985 *Accident-Yes - AO-2014-032* near Albury Aerodrome NSW*
ATR - GIE Avions de Transport Regional* ATR72-212A*Air Transport High Capacity*Passenger* D CTR
During a post flight inspection, substantial damage
to the aircraft's tail assembly was detected. The
investigation is continuing.
So the ATsB has tied the two incidents (accidents) together, yet there is no big media statements from the bureau/Fort Fumble, no pending show cause notices and no voluntary grounding murmurs from VARA...
Oh that's right SOP 101 i.e.
"nothing to see here...move along!"
One thing is for sure JB cannot be happy...
