[Kharon]

P2 – “Not quite O&O'd but nonetheless for what appears to be a fairly straight forward occurrence investigation one wonders what on earth was the delay.”

Well, that’s fairly obvious; the subtext clearly defines the mad scramble to sort out the systemic errors – across the board. Alternatively the report was released early as some Muppet at ATSB thought Feb 1 was April 1.

Bit early for April 1 gags yet – ain’t it? This report is a joke surely, it must be. Some parts are absolutely hilarious, particularly the parts scribed by a person who’s first language ain’t English.

Of course the underlying ‘safety issues’ are not mentioned; which is very PC and extraordinarily PR, but no matter; I’m just glad they followed company SOP and had their Hi-Viz vests handy – real safety at work eh? Well done ASA though – how very decent of them to acknowledge and eventually correct a normalized deviance; so nice not to have to cancel an obstacle warning every time the approach is flown.

The good thing is this report has provided a perfectly valid reason to never, not ever, read another ATSB report – life is too short.

Toot toot.