Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
I'm hoping that's not an even ball-park close report of Dick's views. If they are, it is sad to see the onset of dementia in a once-great Australian.
Here's the relevant passage from Higgins' article;
Dick Smith, a former chairman of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, said it was “completely inexcusable” that the ATSB had still not completed the report of its investigation of the September 2015 incident at Mount Hotham.
He told The Australian that had the ATSB completed its investigation and report within a reasonable timeframe, and concluded that pilot Quartermain had engaged in poor airmanship endangering lives, he might have been grounded.
In that case, Mr Smith said, Quartermain would not have piloted February’s flight in which he and four American passengers died when the Beechcraft King Air crashed into a shopping centre nine seconds after it took off from Essendon airport.
IF he has been accurately reported (on the basis we're talking about
The Australian, that's another big IF) then that is a simply astounding chain of reasoning from Dick.