Clearly the people who wrote the Ansett article have no clue.
The operator was already obliged under the regulations to carry out the SB, eh yr right? Therefore, there was no need for CASA to “take action to mandate the SB in Australia”.
And “the last straw for CASA” wasn’t the “incorrectly stowed – and therefore inoperative emergency exit slide” on an aircraft that had flown “for eight sectors before the fault was discovered”.
And that “last straw” wasn’t the basis on which CASA “grounded the entire fleet of ten Boeing 767s.”
And another of those straws wasn’t the B767-300 that “had been incorrectly fitted with a leading edge slat from a B767-200”.
What actually happened was that CASA grounded the entire fleet of ten Boeing 767s because Ansett had not carried out the SB. Isn’t that right, Eddie?