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Captain's Log 25.10.16: DOI & HSSS archive entry 161025.

Hoody's Annual (bollocks) Report

Unofficially (officially), the HMAS CC Hood has released an ATSBollocks report some 2 weeks before the normal due date, completely without any fanfare, tweeps, pressers or public announcements... :

Moving on, I see that Hoody took the opportunity of being dismissed early from Estimates on Monday to catch up with a bit of paperwork and in the process actually filed an ATSB report that was not overdue... :

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Still reviewing to see if it was 'obfuscated' but couldn't simply go past Hoody's review without a) LMAO and; b) suddenly feeling violently ill...
Here is the first paragraph from Hoody (Warning: Bucket maybe required) :

Chief Commissioner’s review 2015–16

This was the ATSB’s seventh year as a fully independent body within the Infrastructure and Regional Development portfolio. 2015–16 also marked the final year of Martin Dolan’s tenure as the ATSB’s Chief Commissioner. While Martin’s real and significant contributions to improving transport safety have been widely acknowledged, it was his passion, energy and commitment to maintaining the ATSB’s reputation as a world-leading safety investigation body that will be remembered as his most enduring qualities...

On reviewing the 216 page ATSB glossy AR, Ventus ( ) noted the following from the summary of MH370 search events that occurred in the last financial year:

Drift analysis

Another method to determine the origin of recovered aircraft parts is the drift analysis of the parts through the ocean. This work is being conducted by specialists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and utilises the work of the Global Drifter Program, which has been monitoring drifting buoys deployed in the Indian Ocean over the last 30 years, as well as global ocean modelling based on satellite measurements. Results to date indicate that the drift patterns of the recovered parts are not inconsistent with the current search area for the aircraft. Details of the drift analysis work is available on the CSIRO website at www.marine.csiro.au/~griffin/MH370/

The CSIRO is undertaking further drift analysis using physical replicas of the flaperon built by ATSB. This will help measure the difference between their windage factors (drift speed and direction in relation to wind velocity) and that of Global Drifter Program drifters. The results of this work will enhance the accuracy and reliability of the drift analysis, in order to refine the understanding of the likely behaviour and paths of drifting aircraft parts.

Failure analysis

Where considered of value, the recovered aircraft parts were subjected to failure analysis to determine how they failed and separated from the aircraft. The results of this work may provide indications, such as flight control positions—whether the aircraft flaps were extended or retracted at the time of failure—which may inform the end-of-flight scenarios being considered. This work is ongoing.

   
QONs for Folly?? 

Q1/ Does this mean the FFFF Tassie test run ended up OK??
Q2/ Does this mean we will be getting debris replicas for all of the recovered and identified pieces of debris discovered so far? 

M(QON)TF....P2