[DogCharlieTree]

Settled; and settled right.

I cannot imagine what the ATSB would have done with it; but looking at the Pel-Air, Mildura, Swan River, ATR and Essendon events, little is left to wonder at the pitiful results of any sensible comparison. Maybe it’s time government got serious about ‘real world’ safety instead of the artful, lip service charade we constantly see and cringe at.

Please don't forget their (BASI's) incredible bumbling and incomplete report into VH-EDC, Botany Bay 1994.

In that they state:  Right engine  ‘With the exception of the propeller governor, no pre-existing abnormalities were found.’

Concerning the right hand engine which was recovered from the seabed some 9 weeks after the accident they state (but not in a document released to the public) that the spark plugs were cleaned, re-gapped and then tested (yes, in that order). Why wouldn’t they test them as they found them (appalling procedural error)?  Even after cleaning and resetting the gap, they still found eleven out of the twenty-eight to be unserviceable.
The poor old girl never had a chance.