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Chester on 'sense & credibility'??

P9 - ..I wonder if his minders are fully aware that Chester has a major, although hidden problem associated with the credibility of the ATSB. Some one should point out that official reports on aviation incidents and accidents are closely scrutinised not only by industry and peer groups, but by insurance companies acting for and against ‘victims’. There are enough holes, some big enough for a horse and cart, in the ATSB credibility to cause serious embarrassment. A sensible man, looking to be re elected would take steps to put distance between himself and the stench emanating from the Beaker bunker, making certain that any and all research data findings were absolutely above board, kosher and made public as soon as practicable. Mud sticks and when the Beaker Malaysia relationship is examined in the wash up, Chester will need plenty of credit and distance to avoid being splattered...

I am of the same mind as "K" when it comes to Chester, he is still in a 'honeymoon' period with a DD election perhaps imminent. I would also agree that he appears to be very much more engaged & determined to control the government commentary when it comes to MH370.  

Ministerial appointments

• Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence from 18.9.13 to 21.9.15.
  
• Assistant Minister for Defence from 21.9.15 to 18.2.16.
  
• Minister for Infrastructure and Transport from 18.2.16.
  

I would also like to add/join dots on another interesting element (refer above) that would suggest that Chester, the former Assistant Minister for Defence & former Parliamentary Secretary for Defence and now Minister, should be a lot more informed & aware of the ATSB oversighted MH370 SIO deep sea search than we give him credit for:

MH370 SIO search update - 03/12/15

Following on from this...

This AM courtesy of PlaneTalking.. :

MH370: Live notes from special update

Ben Sandilands | Dec 03, 2015 10:14AM |



Malaysia Airlines 777-200ER 9M-MRO, which flew the ill fated MH370 service

An update on the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is being held at around 1030 eastern Australian daylight time in Canberra. The key points will be logged here, followed as necessary by a considered review of the new information.
The media alert makes no reference to the finding of MH370.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss and Assistant Minister for Defence Darren Chester will hold a press conference this morning on updated analysis of the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370.
 
Defence Science and Technology Group has provided further analysis to inform the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s latest report: MH 370 – Definition of Underwater Search Area Update, which reaffirms the highest probability of the resting place of the aircraft in the current 120,000 sq km search zone.
 
The report will be released today.
 
Following the Ministers’ press conference [at 1230] the ATSB will conduct a separate technical briefing on the report for interested media.

MH370 with 239 people on board was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 when it disappeared as a transponder identified flight on air traffic control consoles while at 35,000 feet over the Gulf of Thailand.

Notes: Australia commissioned its own review of previous advice on the likely path taken by MH370 to ‘inform’ the new ATSB report on the definition of the underwater search area, and has released it today.

The deputy PM Warren Truss described the new report as ‘fairly heavy technical reading’.

He said the key points made by the new Defence Science and Technology Group confirmed the broad conclusions made by the strategic search panel that the jet turned south and flew to a point along the so-called seventh arc of possible locations of its point of impact with the water over the southern Indian Ocean.

At this point live television coverage in Australia switched back to the mass shooting tragedy in San Bernardino, and it would be fair to say, any aviation reporters living in SE Australia felt relieved that they hadn’t jumped in their cars in an attempt to reach Canberra in time to receive these new insights.

However, the new report hasn’t yet been studied in detail, and there is an ATSB press conference to come in less than two hours time.

Oh no BBB is back??

With beard 'a splendid' it would seem you can't keep our MH370 Super Sleuth Muppet out of the limelight indefinitely, here he is mi-mi-mi-ing around with the mi-mi-mi-miniscule...

   
Hmm...notice how the other dude - Assistant Minister for Defence Darren Chester - tries in vane to make himself scarce...   Can't say I blame him, I think I'd rather chew my arm off rather than be handcuffed to either of those two buffoons..

Chester's short (80 second) appearance at that presser may not have given us much of insight into the soon to be appointed Minister responsible for aviation & indeed MH370. However one has to assume that Chester, representing the Defence department and therefore the DSTG, would be briefed enough with technical details to at least be able to answer basic questions on the DSTG updated report:

MH370: Data review doesn’t support a controlled ditching


Ben Sandilands | Dec 03, 2015 12:52PM |

A new best estimate of the most likely locations of MH370

A comprehensive review by the Australia managed search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 says data received from the Boeing 777 shortly before it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean is inconsistent with the jet having made a controlled ditching.

The review (in full here) has also narrowed the width of the primary search strips located along the so called seventh arc of possible impact points in the ocean, but also defined new search zones within the priority search areas.

     
Also having been the Parliamentary Secretary to Defence throughout the two previous Ministers for Defence and prior to the MH370 disappearance, he would have been privy to all interdepartmental communications and government decision making processes related to MH370. He would also probably have had an inkling of the shenanigans & internal politics going on when Angus Houston was appointed to head up and then subsequently taken off heading up the public face of MH370.

Maybe all a coincidence but I'm not so sure??


MTF..P2