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Barking mad – rat cunning?

Intriguing post P2.   If you can be bothered heeding the Iron Bar barking, and it does have our undivided attention for the moment; you can see a multi-handed stropathon (sorry) 'typothon' taking place.   Any analysis of syntax, sentence structure and the crude variance of invective, derision and attack line, presents either an interesting multiple personality; or small coven of like minded warlocks.  There sure is a whiff of well oiled machinery providing smoke and poisoned gas.  

Perhaps the road from Lockhart river to Rex, Pel-Air and Norfolk Island is not as sharply defined as the paved with gold road to Singapore; but the crumbs can be followed – all the way to the Gingerbread house.  They must feel very sure of their top cover to risk exposing themselves that way.
Anyone have Karma's email or telephone number?.........  

P7_TOM.

 
Old Tom a point of interest in light of the LHR 10th Anniversary is the new DAS Skates view on the historical significance of the Lockhart River tragedy?? The following is a quote from the inestimable Stevie Easton in the Mandarin article - Course correction for air safety co-operation:

The two regulators and their predecessors — whose responsibilities and staff members meet in the emotionally charged field of air crashes — have had formalised arrangements for decades but Skidmore traces the latest one back to the tragic Lockhart River disaster 10 years ago. CASA copped heavy criticism from the families of the 15 victims after the airline’s shonky practices were revealed, and the coronial inquest that followed showed there was little trust between ATSB and CASA.


Queensland coroner Michael Barnes believed CASA had explicitly instructed its lawyers to make a “sustained attack on the integrity of the ATSB’s investigation report” and perceived a “serious, ongoing animosity between the two organisations” that drove him to write:

“In this and previous inquests I have detected a degree of animosity that I consider inimical to a productive, collaborative focus on air safety. CASA’s submissions in this inquest suggest there was a danger of the ATSB’s recommendations being ignored and I continue to detect a defensive and less than fulsome response to some of them. I am aware that others in the aviation industry share these concerns, although I anticipate the CEO’s of the two agencies will disavow them.”

Barnes recommended the minister consider intervening in the relationship, which led to a review by eminent lawyer Russell Miller, which in turn saw a new three-year MoU signed in 2010.

Skidmore says work on further adjustments had already begun when senators again raised questions about the relationship in 2013 in the context of an inquiry into aviation accident investigations. That inquiry was prompted by criticism of both ATSB and CASA investigations into another crash, the 2009 ditching of a Pel-Air CareFlight plane near Norfolk Island.

“Amongst other things, the committee recommended that the MoU be re-drafted to remove perceived ambiguities in relation to information that should be shared between the agencies in connection with accident investigations,” Skidmore explained. Better information-sharing protocols, he says, is one of the key strengths of the new MoU:

” … it is essential that information be shared between the two agencies, with a view to maintaining as well as improving safety. Insofar as the provision of information by the ATSB to CASA is concerned, this sometimes requires balancing the immediate interests of safety, with the longer-term interests of ensuring that information continues to flow to the ATSB.”

  
Yeah all potentially weasel words but it is refreshing (unlike his predecessor) to see a DAS that doesn't deny the ghost of Lockhart that still haunts the halls of Aviation House.

 MTF..P2