The first of many “We did warn you”
That the ATSB retained any credibility after the Pel-Air ditching off Norfolk Island; or, that Commissioner Dolan managed to keep his job after an extensive inquiry into his handling of the investigation, resulting in public censure from the Senate, is one of the great mysteries. Perhaps the whole thing was viewed (or presented) as an aberration; a one off, and restricted to local consumption.
Since then, not only has nothing changed within the ATSB, but the quality of reports, eventually published by ATSB remain less than useful, being PC and subjected to the ‘Beyond all Reason’ methodology. Yet the Dolan quest for personal public exposure has continued through a series of press interviews and active involvement in the MH 370 search. There were many warning signs that eventually, Australia would loose international face and Dolan’s track record would come back to further condemn the Australian government and the efforts of honest folk within the ATSB. Time magazine –HERE – seem to have got the message and delivered it.
How long now before the world associates Australian efforts with the Malaysian mayhem. Not too long I’d say
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That the ATSB retained any credibility after the Pel-Air ditching off Norfolk Island; or, that Commissioner Dolan managed to keep his job after an extensive inquiry into his handling of the investigation, resulting in public censure from the Senate, is one of the great mysteries. Perhaps the whole thing was viewed (or presented) as an aberration; a one off, and restricted to local consumption.
Since then, not only has nothing changed within the ATSB, but the quality of reports, eventually published by ATSB remain less than useful, being PC and subjected to the ‘Beyond all Reason’ methodology. Yet the Dolan quest for personal public exposure has continued through a series of press interviews and active involvement in the MH 370 search. There were many warning signs that eventually, Australia would loose international face and Dolan’s track record would come back to further condemn the Australian government and the efforts of honest folk within the ATSB. Time magazine –HERE – seem to have got the message and delivered it.
How long now before the world associates Australian efforts with the Malaysian mayhem. Not too long I’d say
Quote:“We are delighted that the debris ended up in France,” Wattrelos told BFM television in France on Thursday. “I have a lot more confidence in my country than in Malaysia and Australia, who have lied to us since the beginning.”
Australia’s credibility as search leader suffered a battering thanks to a series of false leads that were oversold by its government, which was eager to boast success after the hunt shifted to its search and rescue zone in the southern Indian Ocean after the plane disappeared.
Two apparent large objects spotted in satellite imagery off the west Australian coast in March 2014 were declared the “best lead” yet, before they turned out to be unrelated. The next month, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said officials were confident that a series of underwater signals search crews had detected were coming from the plane’s coveted black box data recorders. That was also wrong.
The failure to find a single piece of Flight 370-related debris in a surface search covering 4.6 million square kilometers (1.8 million square miles) over six weeks raised serious questions about whether they were looking in the right place. And the search area has been altered many times.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Martin Dolan denied his agency, which is leading the search, had misled anyone or withheld information. And though the search area was changed several times as officials revised the scant data available, it has been the same since October, he said.
“As soon as new or changed information comes to light, we make it available,” Dolan told The Associated Press on Friday.
The ATSB has also faced criticism for making a mistake in its original drift modeling, which initially predicted debris would wash ashore in Indonesia, rather than the area east of Africa where the flaperon turned up. The bureau issued a statement this week saying a revised analysis showed that, in fact, debris could be carried by currents to the area near Reunion Island.
Dolan said the ATSB didn’t withhold that error, and instead had been working with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to recalculate the drift area after noticing flaws in the model in November.
“We had to work with CSIRO to check the facts and as soon as we had something that was checked, we published it,” Dolan said. “We were in the process with CSIRO of publishing that revised drift modeling when the flaperon turned up at Reunion.”
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