[Kharon]

Cheers P2; that summary document was provided to the Senate committee in an abridged fashion, stripped down to make it an easy read, non technical introduction to a reasonably simple case and overview of the problems industry have to deal with. I have just been right through the PAIN files related to this one accident, which are technical and operationally based; the picture which emerges leading up to and the aftermath is a disgrace. The HOTAC ‘notes’ on the operating practices, procedures and ‘check/training’ with hindsight, show a very clear path to a fatal accident.

I’ve also read some of the ‘statements’ made to the ATSB and CASA; all confidential, but made available to the PAIN library; what a tale they tell.

What I fail to understand is why neither the Senate Inquiry or Forsyth insisted on an independent inquiry into the Canley Vale accident and subsequent events. Ye gods it was all there, enough to put a stopper on the whole thing, right there, right then. Yet when I look about at who’s dead, who’s left standing and the collateral damage done, to enforce a predetermined outcome, produce a very suspect report and an escape path for CASA to slither down; it makes me wonder just how deep and how far the willingness to protect the ‘status quo’ stretches.

Wish I’d left it alone; perhaps Karma will step in; but I’m not betting on that.

Selah.