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UDB! - Bring on June 30 - please someone..anyone??
 
Reflecting on the SMH thread quoted post below:

Beaker clearing the decks for Hoody??

Moving on but still on the soon to be departing SMH Beaker? Some poor bastard is trying to make some sense of the Albo/McComic/Beaker years and asked if I could run a bio search on Beaker.

Still going with this project but some of the goss I have discovered on Beaker so far is simply staggering and begs more questions than answers...

Examples - Did you know that Beaker..

..at one stage was on the CASA Audit & Risk committee?

Here is part of his bio from the CASA 2004-2005 Annual Report:

Martin Dolan Member, Audit and Risk Committee – April 2004 to present

Martin Dolan is the interim Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Energy
Markets Commission and was previously the Executive Director, Aviation and
Airports, Department of Transport and Regional Services...

...In 2001, Mr Dolan transferred to the Department of Transport and Regional
Services. After completing a review of the department’s road programs, he took
over management of the Airports Division. He was then responsible for the
Department’s role in selling Sydney Airport, the enhancement of aviation security,
post-Ansett aviation policy and aviation safety reform. 

Did you know that Beaker..

..was also on the Airservices Australia Directors Board: 

http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads/Airservices_Annual_Report_2004-2005.pdf

During the year, Chief Executive Officer Bernie Smith retired after four years in the position, and Board members Ronald Entsch and Kevin Gale completed their terms. Belinda Gibson and Martin Dolan resigned mid year.

Not sure how long he was on the CASA committee or ASA Board but apparently he suddenly and unexpectedly resigned from both positions around about the same time??

Before those positions Dolan of course was a First Assistant Secretary of DOTARS (see page 14 https://infrastructure.gov.au/department/annual_report/2002_2003/pdf/part_2.pdf ) in the Aviation & Airports Policy/Regulation division and was apparently the primary tweaker of the Airports Act & attributed for drawing up and sealing the deal on the Sydney Airport sale.

While at DOTARS Beaker also had a brief stint as Deputy dog to the then Secretary Ken Mathews (see page 16 above link).

However with Beaker what really piqued my interest was his involvement with the implementation of the NAS (2B), remembering that he was the muppet that commissioned Jeff Griffith to review the possible ramifications of modifying (to Australian unique conditions) Class E over D in the NAS(2B) program:  https://infrastructure.gov.au/aviation/publications/pdf/aviation_griffith_report.pdf

The following is a link to Hansard from 26 May 2004 Senate Estimates: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=COMMITTEES;id=committees%2Festimate%2F7632%2F0007;query=Id%3Acommittees%2Festimate%2F7632%2F0002

P2 intrigue?? - The outstanding questions that remain are; is there any truth to the rumour that Beaker disgraced himself in 2004-5 to the point of being as closely sacked as a senior public servant can get and if so; how was it possible for Beaker to worm his way back into the aviation safety bureaucracy in the plum job as the first Chief Commissioner of the ATSB only 3 short years later??

I guess what all the scuttlebutt highlights (so far) to me, is if there was one person ideally suited to the role of providing top cover (PelAir, MH370 & Airservices Australia) for any of the aviation safety agencies, or the department, that position would be perfectly suited to that man (muppet) Beaker...    

Still trying to track down what was so bad that Beaker was cast off (public servant equivalent of being sacked) into the backwaters of Victoria's bureaucracy for 3 years??

However the far bigger questions are; Q1/ who the hell let him back in again; and Q2/ why is such a maligned, Pecksniffian, sanctimonious individual seemingly impervious to similar sanction from now five different government ministries, ever since his original appointment as the first Chief Commissioner to the ATSB??

Truss had the perfect opportunity to cut him loose after Beaker's contract was due to expire, but bizarrely after all the evidence from the PelAir debacle that the Muppet was a liability, dopey Truss renewed Beaker's contract for a further two years -   

Well fortunately the countdown is now on with 24 days to go till the Muppet exits stage right...

However from the other Aunty today it would appear that this public servant enigma is determined that he won't be easily forgotten before he slithers off the MH370 stage with his gold-plated parachute - FDS! {Warning: Bucket will be required }

MH370: Search chief echoes relatives' calls to continue hunt for plane
Indonesia bureau chief Samantha Hawley
Updated 56 minutes agoSun 5 Jun 2016, 7:39am

Photo: Sakinab Shah, the sister of the MH370 captain, says Malaysia should continue the search. (ABC TV)

As the mission to find missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 draws to a close, the head of the international search is pushing for the hunt to continue until the aircraft has been found.

Key points:

• Australian transport safety chief says team still "deeply passionate" about the search
  
• Family of MH370 pilot begs for Malaysia to continue looking for plane after Australian-led search ends in July
  
• No evidence of plane found at pinpointed location
  
  

The Australian-led search of 120,000 square kilometres of the South Indian ocean seafloor will end in the weeks ahead when the final 15,000 square kilometres has been covered.

But Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Martin Dolan said the team of 200 was still deeply committed and passionate about the search.

His sentiments were echoed by the extended family of the captain of flight MH370, who have pleaded for the search to continue.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 lost contact with air traffic controllers during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew, including six Australians, on board.

The plane's disappearance on March 8, 2014 sparked one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

The flight was piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, who had flown with Malaysia Airlines since 1981. He had a total of 18,365 flying hours.

The first officer was 27-year-old Fariq Ab Hamid, who joined the airline in 2007 and had flown a total of 2,763 hours.

In the aftermath of the disappearance, there were multiple theories including that Captain Shah may have been to blame, although a report released a year after the aircraft was lost found no suspicious behaviour by the pilot, co-pilot or crew.


Photo: MH370 captain Zaharie Shah had more than 30,000 hours flying experience before the plane went missing. (ABC TV)

The sister of Captain Shah, Sakinab Shah, told the ABC it was up to Malaysia to continue the search for answers.

"From my personal opinion Australia is within its rights to call off the search," she said.
"It is Malaysia's responsibility, this is Malaysian MH370, our national carrier, once our pride and joy."

Ms Shah said her bother was deeply missed.

"There is nobody in this world that can replace him," she said

"He was a very kind fellow, very caring, he made time for everybody. He was generous-hearted."

No answers despite $180m search effort

Over the past two years, mass efforts have been thrown at the search in an area of the plane's most likely resting place, which was determined according to satellite imaging from British company Inmarsat.

But as the massive $180 million search draws to a close, no evidence of the plane has been found at that location.

Mr Dolan said once the mission in the designated area was complete, it was his preference the search continued.


Photo: Samantha Hawley speaks with the sister of MH370 Captain Zaharie Shah, Sakinab Shah. (ABC TV)

"Obviously if you ask me, from the point of view of Australian Transport Safety Bureau, working with the Malaysian authorities, our preference very strongly would be to continue the operations until we find the aircraft," he told the ABC.

"But we're realistic that there comes a point when governments have to decide that they've spent enough resources on the task.

"From the professional investigation point of view, we'd be saying we should continue until we find the aircraft."

Mr Dolan said the search area covered the vast majority of the possible flight paths of the aircraft.

He defended the search areas, saying it was calculated from satellite data.

"If we don't find it in that area then it's in an adjacent area that we will find the aircraft, it's just that the adjacent area is large," Mr Dolan said.

Self-funded searcher calls for refined area

American man Blaine Gibson has undertaken a self-funded search for the missing plane.
He found one of the pieces of likely plane debris off the coast of Mozambique in March this year.

How the disaster unfolded



Look back over how events unfolded following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

"If they do not find it [MH370] there I hope that they refine the search area and look at other evidence in the hope that more debris is found that can give an idea where it is," he told the ABC from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

"Maybe it is somewhere north-west of there."

Mr Gibson said authorities had not adequately investigated a sighting of an aircraft near the Maldives on the evening the plane went missing.

"We need to look at the eyewitness sightings in the Maldives and other eyewitness sightings in Malaysia," he said.

"Most importantly the debris evidence, the current and drifts of the five pieces of debris that have been identified and the marine biology on them."

He hoped an international consortium would resume the search once the Australian-led mission was complete.

So far five pieces of debris likely to be from MH370 have been found, while three more pieces that have washed up on Indian Ocean beaches in Mauritius and Mozambique are being examined by Australian investigators.

Photo: Debris was found off Mosambique in March this year. (Supplied: Aircrash Support Group Australia)

The Malaysian Transport Minister refused the ABCs request to be interviewed.

The Malaysian Government has consistently rejected criticism its initial response in the vital early hours and days of the search lacked rigour and transparency.

It took four days for Malaysia to reveal the international search in waters in the South China Sea to its north was pointless and that the plane had taken a sharp turn left towards the strait of Malacca.

"We didn't start looking for surface wreckage in the southern Indian Ocean until day 10 or day 11 after the disappearance of the aircraft, which meant that things could have drifted a long way," Commissioner Dolan said.

Photo: Map from AMSA showing the planned search areas and Sonobuoy search areas for flight MH370 on April 12, 2014. (AMSA)

'We need to know where our family is'
Queenslanders Cathy and Bob Lawton were on the flight, and left behind a loving extended family, three daughters and grandchildren.

They were travelling with friends Mary and Rodney Borrows on a so-called trip of a lifetime.

Cathy's sister Jennifer McQuire said the family wanted the search to continue, but understood it could not be funded forever.


Photo: Queenslanders Catherine and Robert Lawton pictured on holidays. Both were on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. (Facebook)

"It is always an emotional rollercoaster — at one point you are quite good and then the next part you're just torn apart with everything inside yourself," Ms McQuire said.


"You don't want it to stop, we need to have closure, we need to know where our family is."

University of Western Australia oceanographer Charitha Pattiaratchi compared the search to looking for something with your eyes closed.

"It it took 100 years for them to go and find the exact location of the Titanic," he said.
"Same for HMAS Sydney, maybe some time in the future when we have better techniques, there might be another expedition which may be able to find the plane."

Is there no limit to the low depths that this Muppet will go??- UDB!

Trying to describe with one word or one line the Beaker enigma and his puerile impact on aviation safety administration is a challenge. Is he the Moriarty; or the spook; or the Uriah Heap of aviation safety?? Would appreciate others insight, however for me the best line description for the Muppet is...

MTF...P2