Kharon:
Recent events have diverted attention away from our domestic mini tragedy and the anticipated release of the Canadian TSB report on the ATSB. Perhaps we worry needlessly; it could be that 'Beaker does the Ukraine' has a happy ending, the one where someone shoots him in the arse and shuts him up.
004:
What a farce, the Beaker flew out to the Ukraine today to assist with the investigation of MH17!!!
TB:
Good old Beaker will sit around the hotel sipping Lattes, maybe do a bit of sightseeing, with a bit of luck get popped by a drunken separatist, but I doubt he'll get to see a bit of road kill, let alone anything else…
“K”, 004 & TB my sentiments exactly…
Despite the Jinglie statement that Beaker is simply a muppet put in place to cover up the multitude of failings (at all levels) of the bureau & Fort Fumble, IMO it is simply unacceptable that this muppet, while expounding his (penny pinching) BASR philosophy, continues in the bureau CC/spokesman position…
TSBC peer review report overdue??
Taking up on the “K” post with a Selleys (gap filler) moment…
“…It is worth your time to examine SR A-14-022 from the NTSB – not from an 'operational' perspective; but from a 'systems' perspective…”
“K” is referring to a NTSB SR that I first drew attention to at post #1966:
Which is followed by…
“…The NTSB is vitally interested in these recommendations because they are designed to prevent accidents and save lives. We would appreciate receiving a response from you within 30days regarding A-14-22 (Urgent) and 90 days regarding A-14-23 detailing the actions you have taken or intend to take to implement them…”
Through the user friendly NTSB SR system, it is also possible to actively monitor the outcomes of these SRs…
Within the 30 day requirement (unlike FF who have been known to obfuscate SRs for up to a decade or more..
), the FAA ‘immediately’ actioned the NTSB ‘urgent’ SR and sent the following correspondence in response:
Response Date:
5/30/2014
Response:
-From Michael P. Huerta, Administrator: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has reviewed the Board's concerns and its questions related to operators owned by HoTJ-1, Inc. An independent team of Flight Standards National Field Office (AFS-900) Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASIs) from outside of Alaska was assembled and immediately dispatched to Alaska to conduct an audit on Hageland Aviation Inc.’s (EPUA) Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 135 operations. The evaluation was conducted from April 28 to May 9, 2014. at the EPUA main base of operation in Anchorage and Palmer. Alaska. Station and aircraft ramp inspections were conducted in Anchorage, Barrow. Bethel, Deadhorse, Fairbanks, Palmer, and St. Mary's, Alaska. Multiple enroute inspections were also conducted on the various fleet types operated by EPUA. The results of the EPUA audit are being reviewed to determine appropriate action. Several areas of concern within the broad areas identified by the Board were documented by the team and communicated to EPUA key management personnel and the FAA certificate management team responsible for the oversight of EPUA. Era Aviation (ERAA), a part 121 certificate holder owned by HoTH, was the subject of a national Air Carrier Evaluation Process (ACEP) audit conducted by an independent team of AFS-900 ASIs from outside of Alaska. The ACEP, which concluded in June 2013, revealed weak areas within the broad categories identified by the Board. As a result, follow-up actions have been taken and continue to be implemented by HoTH and the FAA. AFS-900 plans to send another independent team of ASIs to conduct a national ACEP audit on ERAA in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2015. This audit will include a review of the discrepancies previously identified in the June 2013 ACEP audit. Additionally, the FAA's Director of Flight Standards Service and his Deputy will travel to Alaska in July 2014 to meet with regional and office personnel to discuss the HoTH situation and assess progress being made by the certificate holders to correct the identified deficiencies. I will keep the Board informed of the FAA's progress on this safety recommendation and provide an updated response by August 31, 2015.
Notice that the FAA don’t argue the TOSS on the NTSB findings, nor do they question the NTSB suggested SR actions, in fact they expand on the SR with planned further actions.
Compare to Beaker’s BASR with Pel-Air, from my post #1966:
..In the ATsB final report of the investigation into the ditching of VH-NGA under the heading Organisational and management information the bureau made the following cursory summary of CAsA’s oversight of PelAir…
“…The regulatory requirements affecting the flight were administered by CASA and established a number of risk controls for the operation that were promulgated in the Civil Aviation Regulations (CAR) and CAOs. Those controls related to the operator, the pilot in command (PIC) and the conduct of the flight. Surveillance was carried out by CASA of operators’ procedures and operations to ensure that such flights were conducted in accordance with those approvals and the relevant regulations and orders…”
…but after the findings of the Senate AAI inquiry and on CAsA’s own admissions (& the Chamberpot report), there were many obvious deficiencies in the regulator’s oversight of the PelAir Operation that were contributory to the ditching.
However in the ATsB’s blinkered view these safety issues were not significant enough to issue either a significant safety issue or SR to the regulator and the rest is history.
I could pick up on many quotes from the PelAir inquiry that go to this issue but the following from Bryan Aherne captures the Beaker (politically correct) BASR methodology vs the rest of the AAI world methodology...
"...Senator XENOPHON:Can you give us any insight into the relationship between CASA and the ATSB? There was a report in 2007 and there are MOUs and protocols between the two. From your knowledge of the interplay between ATSB and CASA do you think that that balance is right or that there are issues there?
Mr Aherne : If this report is anything to judge that by, no.
Senator XENOPHON:In what way?
Mr Aherne : CASA and the ATSB must necessarily cooperate, but it does not mean that they lie in the same bed. What they need to do is have a very healthy respect for one another, but you need a distance to stand off. You need to be strictly independent in this game because you only get one shot at this stuff, and clearly in this case the ATSB has not even mentioned anything about the failure of the life jackets…"
Hmm..not sure what political games that RED & the miniscule are playing at by keeping Beaker in the CC position?? Maybe it is the adage that it is “better the devil you know”?? However the IOS & Senators will not accept Beaker as a permanent fixture for too much longer…
Even the international media are fast catching on that the veracity of Beaker (as the bureau spokesperson) is questionable, surely it is only a matter of time before this muppet passes his use by date??
TICK..TOCK bring back ‘Reason’ miniscule & FFS release the TSBC report!
MTF…
ps I’m with Jinglie for the MoP Stakes..
Despite recent form PW finished fast for a credible 2nd in the 2010 MoU Cup, which is raced over the same distance and on a similar track. So my pick is ‘Pearly White’, who was incidently sired by ‘Aloo’, winner of the 2004 MoU Cup….