Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
No. Intentional acts don't fall within the provisions of Annex 13.
Thankyou.
As in:
Originally Posted by ICAO Annex 13 Chapter 1
Accident. An occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked, in which:
a) a person is fatally or seriously injured as a result of:
— being in the aircraft, or
— direct contact with any part of the aircraft, including
parts which have become detached from the aircraft, or
— direct exposure to jet blast,
except when the injuries are from natural causes, self-inflicted or inflicted by other persons, or when the injuries are to stowaways hiding outside the areas normally available to the passengers and crew;
I find it unfortunate that in this case the analytical expertise of the AAIB in human and organisational factors cannot be deployed to investigate the roles of the training, SOPs, SOP compliance, corporate culture, and other human factors such as fatigue in this incident within both EasyJet and Sussex Police - who are responsible for policing at Gatwick Airport.
I guess part of the point of the exception is to insulate organisations such as the AAIB from political and judical interference with their function of rationally analysing the causes of an incident, so that similar incidents are less likely to recurr.