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Bruce Rhoades response to Crawford's bullying letter -   

Via FB: https://www.facebook.com/bruce.rhoades.7...uU&fref=nf

Dear Mr Crawford.

I must admit to having read your letter with some amusement, especially your threats of legal action and punitive punishments.

How would you propose to punish a dead man walking?

You have destroyed my business already, destroyed my income and deprived me of all extra assets and funds.

You have referred to my having made allegations of fabrication of evidence by Craig Martin and his team as well as Anthony Carter.

Perhaps you should read the affidavit Craig Martin’s team made up against me for yourself and read the conflicting evidence of ATSB, Qld Police and your department who, to this day, have not visited the site.

Or alternatively just watch the 7:30 Report story again!

I will include a link for your edification.

https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/dying-pilot-...6hCyTxNn-g

And this is an abbreviated version.

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AI...ot&o=OneUp

Your officers truly blundered in offering inducements to have my pilot withdraw and suppress evidence at the AAT hearing, obviously unaware that I had gathered that evidence. Oops.

Perhaps you are also not aware that comments or statements made are not defamatory if it is true?

But of course the truth has never been a high priority with your department.

I would welcome any action for defamation by CASA or its officers (why is the department speaking on behalf of these officers?) as this will give me an opportunity to expose your officers and your department in a real court, not a kangaroo court run by CASA.

Or an AAT hearing where CASA officers are perceived to be “professional aviators” in spite of the fact that all you do is fly desks covered in an ever deepening pile of “Regulations”.

As for your comment that. “Publishing such comments also has the potential to undermine public confidence in CASA and therefore prejudice the important work we do in seeking to ensure the safety of civil aviation”.

Are you serious? What planet do you live on? That comment just had me rolling on the floor laughing, and just goes to show how out of touch your department is with the general publics and aviation industries perception of CASA.

I have written many times that the adversarial, hostile and mistrustful relationship between CASA and industry has resulted in a scenario where industry will not report safety issues to CASA, if it can be avoided, and kept in house.

As a result the ramifications for safety are very negative now and long term and will result in many more deaths indirectly attributable to your department.

As for your last threatening paragraph “requiring me to desist from publishing such comments and apologising to your officers”, I can assure you that neither of those things will be happening as I have this unfortunate habit of telling the truth and standing by it.

Regards

Bruce Rhoades

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