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Only a ‘twiddle’ as “K” would call it; can't be buggering about with  stats to back it  – but it seems to me that ‘push-back’ and ‘ground’ incidents’ have been on the increase for a while now. There is a distinct pattern in the ‘dots’ which suggests something has changed. Before the bottom line became so much more important than common sense; there were not so many touchy-feely incidents.  So what changed, who allowed a relaxation, why; and, just who influenced that relaxation?

The statistics clearly define this 'relaxation' – why FDS has the ATSB allowed this to become the unquestioned, norm – unchallenged?  Perhaps Hoody can now earn his corn by answering these questions. I am sick, to the back teeth, of ‘financial expediency’ trumping operational good sense.

Hood has a ‘get-out-of jail’ free card from the Senate – time to earn that trust. Start with ‘why’, suddenly we have a heap of “Light Contacts”. Mate! - there ain’t no such ducking thing: not when 150 + tons of fuel loaded machinery collide @ even 10 knots (5 each for the uninformed); the Kinetic energy, as described by Newton, defies the best run “beyond all reason” model, statistically unchallenged  garbage. It never happened before because it was never allowed to happen – ya duckin' halfwit.

Get real – sort it out; or, alternatively - fuck off.