I am not sure that the DPP gets involved in CASA prosecutions as CASA is a government agency and not a government department. It is one of the reasons CASA has a legal department. However, someone may have a better knowledge of this than I.
Well, I am sure that DPP are the people that take the case on. I see that
Aroa has beat me to it with a specific case that he has personal knowledge of.
And I was very surprised that Mr Retski allowed himself to become involved in that bit of stupidity, for goodness sake the tailplane was one piece.
He might have been better-served if NGV had remained on the seabed.
This was always a risk that certain contributors to this and previous threads had either overlooked, or were so certain of their "facts" that it(the CVR) would support the pilot.