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The fallout from Lockhart is ridiculous and unnecessary, much similar to Pelair. Going back to Lockhart, Mr Barnes was correct in his analysis. The ATSB investigation was correct in its entirety. The ATSB basically said CAsA stuffed up with its piss-poor oversight of Transair, and that obviously includes some of CAsA's employees and by default includes I-Ron-bar and his mate the Submarine. Pelair is no different. The ATSB should have pulverised CAsA for its part in the accident for being a contributing factor, but instead the ATSB chose to bend over and allow itself to be anally violated by the Regulator. Naughty naughty.

The autonomy and independence of the ATSB, by it's nature, is and should be maintained. There was no need for post Lockhart 2010 hugs and kisses and reach-arounds between the two alphabet soup agencies. CAsA was a causal factor and the ATSB noted that in its report. Great work ATSB, choccy frogs for you. Unfortunately CAsA cried like a baby and the Mandarins in Government hit the cover-up button, the rest is history and the Dr Voodoo/Pumpkin Head/Chairman Hawke MOPOOH was born.

My advice is if one wishes to examine how the 'relationship' should actually work, look back to 2005. Even better, look at the FAA and the NTSB, you won't see those two organisations dry humping each other or indulging in spit swapping!

"Perhaps I-Ron-bar and L.Ron Hubbard are one and the same"??

Excellent re-call to duty Aunty Pru...

Where to begin, how about here via @SimoneFoxKoob from the Oz... :

Air safety bodies spoke ‘more than once’ on pilot’s near-miss
Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Greg Hood briefs media on the Essendon Airport crash that killed five, including pilot Max Quartermain. Picture: Getty Images

• Simone Fox Koob
  
• The Australian
  
• 12:00AM February 23, 2017
  

Journalist
Sydney
@SimoneFoxKoob
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The aviation safety regulator spoke “more than once” with investigators from another agency about a 2015 near-miss involving the pilot of a doomed charter flight which crashed into a shopping centre on Tuesday, but insisted the two incidents could not be linked.

The relationship between the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, which licenses pilots, and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which investigates crashes and ­incidents, has been strained in the past with a 2013 senate report finding communication from one agency to another was “problematic”.

The ATSB yesterday revealed it had discovered “interesting ­facets” in its early check of the wreckage of the Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, which plunged into a DFO shopping centre on the edge of Essendon Fields airport killing all five on board.

ATSB chief commissioner Greg Hood denied the agency faced a lack of resources in investigating other incidents which do not result in deaths but which might prevent future fatalities. In the 2015 incident, Max Quartermain was at the controls of a plane heading into a ski resort at Mount Hotham when he experienced difficulties with the GPS, almost hit another aircraft and landed at the wrong end of the runway.

An investigation into the near-miss will not be finalised till May, almost two years after the accident. “It’s more a prioritisation issue,” Mr Hood said.

“We have a means of categorising the transport accidents and serious incidents that we investigate and obviously those that involve multiple fatalities or that have the ability to improve transport safety are those that we prioritise and sometimes that means that others are delayed.

Mr Hood said it “is not uncommon for (CASA) to take independent action without waiting for an ATSB report”.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority yesterday refused to say what information was shared between the agencies about Mr Quartermain, with a spokesman telling The Australian the proper safety procedure had been followed.

“The pilot passed the appropriate proficiency tests at Mount Hotham and since then,” he said. “He was properly qualified to fly.”

A 2008 review into the relationship between the ATSB and CASA found the relationship was “sub-optimal”. A further 2013 Senate review into aviation accident investigations found the relationship remained “problematic” and recommended they “remove any ambiguity in relation to shared information”.

Now to begin re-joining the dots and re-making the dashes...


MTF...P2