This incident, and the Norfolk Is debacle, have demonstrated that the ATSB has a way too cosy relationship with other government entitities and will seek to deflect blame from them at all costs. Including destroying the reputations and careers of the crews involved.
Time for the ATSB to go.
No, its time that ATSB was resourced correctly. The workload to complete such a comprehensive reports is time consuming. Time = money, more staff to share the workload. Then investigations such as this (and many others) are completed within a realistic and meaningful time period (i.e. 6 months
maximum). I'm not privy to the number of ATC/Pilot investigators are employed by ATSB but if this report took 3 years then this means a large increase in investigators (x6).