he didn't say he wrote that up, he copied it from an old BASI journal
Just to clarify that point. In fact, I did write up all those defects mentioned above. When nothing was done to rectify them and those aircraft continued to fly with passengers, the decision had to be made to shut up about it or fix the problem. In those days it was called a CAIR which I think was Confidential Aviation Incident Report. See this link:
http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_asset...1/jan/atsb.pdf
Later I believe an edited version was used by BASIS in their flight safety journal.