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Revisiting the PelAir cover-up timeline of embuggerance and courtesy the AP blog - remember this?

A little more meā maximā culpā.

• Posted by admin
  
• on February 15, 2015
  
• • Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
  

15 Feb

It’s been noted with interest that the much admired and respected Ms. Nancy Graham Director of the ICAO Air Navigation Safety has become a leading light in her advocacy for fairness to those left behind, awaiting news of MH 370.  Like many reasonable folk, she expresses concern that the spirit and intent of both the MC99 and now dated Warsaw convention are being disturbed by the wide spread use of ‘extreme’ legal interpretation.
PAIN understands Ms. Graham is to meet the MH 370 families to discuss the battles ahead and to try and ensure that the desperately needed speedy resolution is forthcoming; in the hope that the trauma may be reduced as much as humanly possible.  Ms. Graham has made an appeal to the UN for unity and compassion; what a lovely thought in this day and age.

It is passing strange though that apparently ICAO have no knowledge of the Pel-Air ditching, the Senate inquiry, the Rev Forsyth’s independent review, or the TSBC peer review.   Perhaps when she meets the McComic at a cocktail party, she may ask why two serious, controversial, fatal accident were not reported to ICAO.  Neither the fatal Canley Vale accident (VH-PGW) nor the nearly fatal Norfolk Island ditching (VH-NGA) appear in the accidents listed – see research links below.  For if this apparent double omission is proven accurate, it will go a long way toward explaining some of the unbelievable actions of the Australian safety agencies.  There’ll be hell to pay if the duck up of the cover up went as far as fooling ICAO; the Senate is one thing, ICAO funded by the USA is quite another.  Can’t wait to see Merdek deal with that hot little potato; Heff will go nuts.
It is also passing strange that McComic’s #1 willing accomplice (Wodger) was in control of the CASA end of both accident investigations; and, that both the ATSB reports were met by howls of outrage and cries derision, which bounced off Doolaly Dolittle like water, off the proverbial ducks back.

What we do know – Ms. Graham was genuinely intrigued by the previously unknown story of Karen Casey and the survivors of the NLK ditching; the long stretch of a 1929 law being used to delay, bully and confound the compensation claims for the survivors.  Ms. Graham will investigate the tale further as she simply cannot understand why this incredible story was unknown to her.

What we suspect – Vardy from the TSBC may get a WTF call; the McComic pug marks on the episode will be looked at; and, with any luck at all, the Uriah Heep of accident investigation may end up with just a few more questions to answer.

I find it most refreshing that someone like the inestimable Ms. Nancy Graham would take the time, find the humanity and compassion to take a call from Karen, spend time discussing the event and agree to do a little digging.  It’s not how the world should be though, is it? – if the ATSB had done the right thing, if the CASA had done the right thing, there would be no need for the ICAO top brass to become involved.  Shame on a once proud nation, top marks to Ms. Graham.

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Unfortunately, like many PelAir lines of investigation, the Nancy Graham promised inquisition came to nought, zilch, nada -

To be fair, Nancy Graham's tenure at ICAO came to an end not long after she became aware that there was no ICAO record of the ditching of VH-NGA.

In a passing strange coincidence, I just so happened to be reviewing the ATSB FOI disclosure log and I noted that there was a new entry:

Disclosure log number:     FOI 16-17(24)
Date information listed:     31 May 2017

Summary of FOI request:  All documents relating to an aviation accident which occurred near the Barwon Highway, Callandoon, Queensland on 28 December 2016.
Description of information released under the disclosure log (full or part):
The documents were released to the applicant in part.  Exemption provisions applied: s47F(1) and s47E(d) of the FOI Act.

FOI 16-17(24) Disclosure docs.pdf

  
The following is a copy of the last page (Document 4) from the above PDF link:
 

This would appear to be a standard serious incident/accident ICAO notification form. This begs the question that Shirley one of these must exist for the formal notification of the VH-NGA Norfolk Island ditching to ICAO - Shirley? Or Nancy?  

Anyway perhaps some DIP might consider an FOI request for a copy of the VH-NGA ICAO notification form. This would at least establish whether the 'no notification' cock-up was merely lost in the mail; or lost in translation internally with ICAO; or something much more sinister like perhaps M&M, McComic, Beaker & Russell had a strong desire to keep quiet (i.e. cover-up) the gory details surrounding the VH-NGA ditching...


MTF? Definitely...P2

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