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Thanks for the links. So as clearly described in the article that summarises the report, the chief pilot and CEO of Seaview clearly lied for the purposes of achieving a financial gain, and dumped it all on the PIC. The regulator was caught doing a crap job and was identified as implicit. Fast forward about 15 years to the next ditching, and what happens? The PIC is dumped in it again, the chief pilot given a job by the regulator within weeks after the accident, the regulator takes action against the PIC only, all key personnel of PELAIR and the regulator are absolved of responsibility by the ATSB and live happily ever after.
You can’t understand what you read apparently.
Seaview didn’t ditch. It ended up in the ocean probably having broken up in flight.
The owner and the chief pilot were a toxic combination of being shonkies and incompetent.
But: who didn’t do their medical on time?
Who apparently didn’t know enough about the aircraft he was flying?
Who knowingly broke the rules by flying rpt when it was a sham?
Who knowingly flew an overloaded and out of trim aircraft?
Who apparently couldn’t flight plan properly?
Who didn’t write defects up as required by the regs?
The pilot obviously went along with the owner and the chief pilot with all their Shonkies. Some choose to but no one has to.
All of the adversely named persons and agencies need to hang their collective heads in shame for not doing their jobs properly but none of them, none of them were the captain of the aircraft.
Yes it is an absolute disgrace that all the failures in the Seaview affair can occur, but in the end no one made the unfortunate pilot fly the aircraft that day in the circumstances that he did,no one! He had the option to walk away but soldiered on, I’ll bet in ignorant bliss.