ATSB AO-2020-059 update?? -
Not sure why but the Hooded Canary's aviary has sailed well past the ICAO Annex 13 preliminary reporting requirements of 30 days:
Maybe there is some legitimate excuse?? However I find the delay extremely suspect given that the fatal accident involved yet another Soar flight training aircraft and remembering that same company/flight school was so enthusiastically promoted (in November 2018) by a certain Minister (current Acting PM)?
Hmm...but maybe the MSM are finally joining the dots and making the connections?
Via Yahoo News:
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Not sure why but the Hooded Canary's aviary has sailed well past the ICAO Annex 13 preliminary reporting requirements of 30 days:
Quote:What are a State’s reporting obligations during and after an aircraft accident investigation?
Under Annex 13 to the Chicago Convention, States in charge of an investigation must submit a Preliminary Report to ICAO within thirty days of the date of the accident, unless the Accident/Incident Data Report has been sent by that time. Preliminary Reports may be marked as confidential or remain public at the investigating State’s discretion.
Maybe there is some legitimate excuse?? However I find the delay extremely suspect given that the fatal accident involved yet another Soar flight training aircraft and remembering that same company/flight school was so enthusiastically promoted (in November 2018) by a certain Minister (current Acting PM)?
Hmm...but maybe the MSM are finally joining the dots and making the connections?
Via Yahoo News:
Quote:No plane faults found in NSW crash probe
Luke Costin
Tue, 12 January 2021, 4:18 pm AEDT
Investigators probing a fatal crash involving a financially-troubled flight school will examine maintenance history and the experience of those on board.
A student pilot and her instructor were killed when their two-seat light aircraft slammed into a small dam in central NSW on November 4, 2020.
The flight was a final check before the Soar Aviation student underwent a commercial pilot licence test later that month.
A crash investigation update released on Tuesday said the engine had fuel supply at the time of the crash at Carcoar, south of Orange.
Weather reports also indicated no cloud, good visibility and light winds.
"On-site examination of the aircraft's flight controls, engine and structure did not identify any pre-existing faults or failures," the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's Kerri Hughes said in a statement.
Ms Hughes said the ATSB would now analyse the pilot's personal electronic devices, the aircraft's maintenance history, weight and balance, and performance.
Planning for the flight and the pilots' qualifications, experience and medical information will also be examined before the final report, expected in late 2021.
Soar Aviation, which entered administration on December 29, no longer has a working phone number listed on its website.
Comment was sought via email and via its administrators, who held a creditors meeting this week.
The ATSB's initial investigations had uncovered that the crashed aircraft was flying in a pattern consistent with a touch-and-go at a landing area near Carcoar before it crashed.
It had earlier departed Bankstown Airport and landed at Orange, where a witness saw the instructor consulting flight charts.
Two orbits of the airstrip near Carcoar were completed before the crash.
No eyewitnesses saw the aircraft but a witness heard sounds consistent with it approaching and then leaving the area.
Less than 10 seconds later, the witness heard the plane hit the bank of the small dam, which was on rising terrain about 600 metres beyond the runway.
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