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Old 23rd Mar 2015, 21:35
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Wunwing
 
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I think at this stage we should leave the blame game and leave the accident reinvestigation to the current third enquiry

Lets start looking at the facts presented last night and attempt to come to grips with what was presented.

Clearly both the nurse and doctor were crew not a passenger on the aircraft and as crew I always understood that I was fully covered for all injuries I suffered while working for my employer. As I understood it, the Montreal Protocol only came into play if there was a ticket issued which constituted a contract. To have a valid contract there has to be a payment made to the supplier. In this case the payment was made in the form of wages to the employee so there was no supply contract.

So it now seems that crew are severley limited in what they can claim if they are injured in an aircraft accident and the only compensation that we can expect for mental damage is via your state workcover which given that Aviation is a Federal exercise seems more than a bit risky.

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