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FRMS/SMS a lip service exercise - Part V

A curiosity.

P2 – “[that] were received by the RRAT committee Secretariat on the 10 October 2012 i.e. 12 days before the first public hearing:"

Maybe I’m reading the chronology incorrectly – but it seems to me those ‘anonymous’ documents were in some kind of limbo for about 16 weeks, before being marked ‘received’, which is kind of strange anyway.

Any answers there P2 – did the docs get lost in the post? Or, have I missed a breadcrumb.

Toot toot.

I don’t expect many would ever wonder what our archives look like at the end of a week long research effort. I caught this picture of P2 hard at work Wednesday last, to give you some idea… (Big smile).

Ok onwards and downwards apparently...

To begin please refer to either this 'dots & dashes' thread post - All Pel-Air lines of obfuscation lead to? - or this SBG post - The best laid plans of mice and men.

P2 - “From that extraordinary public hearing of revelations, obfuscating admissions, spin, bull-dust and denials, it would now appear that some of those involved individuals must have been telling the committee porky pies. This is because the existence of the Chambers Report was known at least 12 days before the first public hearing and is listed as a tabled document from CASA (i.e. 01 CASA_Doc 3_Web - PDF)”.

Of the nine documents, received by the RRAT Secretariat on 10 October 2012, I would argue that the very damning findings of the 'Cook report' far outweighed in significance and importance of the self-serving, 'cut & paste', spin'n'bulldust contribution of Wodger in the 'Chambers report'. Only now is it possible to reflect on why it was so much time and effort was given to trying to bury both the Cook and CAIR 09/3 reports...

In hindsight and based on some recent revelations/intel our breadcrumb trail is starting to thread it's way through all the deviously contrived lines of bureaucratic obfuscation and lies.
So back to those 9 docs and in particular the so called 'Cook report'.

19 CASA Special Audit of Pel-Air Fatigue Risk Management System, received 10 October 2012;(PDF 5428KB)

To begin I have made some inquiries with the Senate RRAT committee Secretariat, some of which is pending on key staff return to work from hols. However I was able to establish some facts about the way submissions to inquiries were administered.  

First it is very unusual for documents to be received and to then be stated as being received on the inquiry webpage. Normally documents and submissions to the committee inquiry will be processed (tabled) within days of being received. The only possible exception is when documents contain sensitive and/or private information that needs committee approval to be processed as either in camera, or redacted with the private details blanked out. 

Redactions are usually able to be administered again within days of being received or tabled in public hearings. With in camera submissions a submitters consent also has be obtained and the submission will obviously not be published on the Inquiry webpage.

The advantage of in camera submissions is that the committee are immediately able to review the documents. None of the nine documents were tabled, therefore able to be reviewed by the committee, till either the day before or on the day of the extraordinary 15 February 2013 public hearing. 

However all of the 9 documents, including the 'Cook report' have been redacted to protect the identities and contact details of individual officers. This led me to a question that is still pending an answer from the committee Secretariat: Q/ Are the redactions in the format/ composition that the Secretariat utilises?

Point of comparison.

These queries got me thinking about another 'Cook report' that I remember was tabled by former Senator Xenophon in the context of the 2010-11 Pilot training inquiry.

2 Tabled document received from Senator Xenophon on 18 March 2011 in Canberra. Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) report titled on 'Special Fatigue Audit: Jetstar';(PDF 5210KB)  

 
When you download the PDF you will find a pristine document that appears to have no redactions or alterations and where you 'click' on 'file' and then 'properties, you will see that PDF copy was created the day before it was tabled.

Also of interest with this particular 'Special Fatigue Audit' was that it garnered a similar negative CASA executive response to that of the Cook 'PelAir FRMS SAR'.

Via QON 18/03/2011 (note who the CASA 1 QON was addressed to... ):

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Remember that Cook's Jetstar report was produced some 5 months after he co-authored with Mal Christie the PelAir FRMS Special Audit Report. 

Coincidentally (or not) Mal Christie left CASA and started employment with the ATSB in February 2010 and Ben Cook left CASA in July 2010 for a position back with the ADF as an Air Safety Investigator.


MTF? - Definitely...P2

  
Ps Good catch from KC off that 'opinionated' Cook PelAir report...

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