Of Stocks and Bond(age).
Gold Standard? Don’t think so. One must hope that the DRRAT committee has noted the world wide rush by international safety agencies to adopt the ‘new’ investigative benchmark created by the ATSB investigation of Angel Flight (Aus). I’d bet there are representatives from AF (USA) speeding their way to Australia to make sure they are ‘full bottle’ on the new way; and, madly amending their manuals as we speak.
Of course EASA, FAA and CAA have already made legislative changes, to reflect the wisdom of Jonathan (where’s me marbles) Aleck. The wonderful, carefully constructed rules developed by CASA for AF will become international ‘best practice’ for dealing with cowboy outfits.
But, it will be at the NTSB where the really big changes will occur. How could any responsible, first world Safety authority ignore the stellar logic and brilliant conclusions of the ATSB in light of a report from the Australian DRRAT committee.
Ayup: I can really see all that happening. Can you imagine our very own HVH Hooded Canary standing up in front of the ICAO chair and his international peers; telling ‘em all what a wonderful job ‘his’ team of Catamites did on the Mt Gambier accident; and, just to add the gravy, wave this DRRAT committee report up as an exemplar of how to handle an inquiry.
A honest man would hide his head in shame; but, and it is a great big BUT children, a honest man would rather chew his leg off than be party to this shameless aberration. Another big BUT is how can the DRRAT committee be part of this gross distortion? Can they define exactly ‘how’ the ATSB report improves aviation safety? Can they provide a cost analysis to show what this pantomime of deception has cost the public?
I’d put the whole cast and crew in the Stocks and let the public pelt ‘em with rubbish – let ‘em know how it feels to have garbage thrown at you.
Doc. Gates summary is a little more eloquent, polite and educated:-
a. It is not clear how The Report reached the decision that its (the ATSB) work “is, by and large, considered by the committee to be world class”. Respectfully, the Senate did not review the work of the ATSB against any international standard or comparison that would permit it to draw such a conclusion. The conclusion goes well beyond the evidence available to it in this inquiry. This is a decision based on opinion, not evidence. It is not clear how the committee reached this decision.
b. The very fact that The Report draws attention to the problem that the ATSB did not interview any Angel Flight pilots (section 1.25), and that there are potential problems with the statistical analysis of the data by ATSB which still seem to not be fully understood by ATSB should raise, in our view, significant questions about the “world class” conclusion.
c. It is not clear how the conclusion was reached that “Nothing in this report is a criticism of ATSB’s investigation into any particular incident” when in fact the inquiry was ‘particularly’ into the 2017 Angel Flight accident. Respectfully, The Report is replete with identified problems with the ATSB investigation which, in our view, remain unresolved.
Toot – toot…
Gold Standard? Don’t think so. One must hope that the DRRAT committee has noted the world wide rush by international safety agencies to adopt the ‘new’ investigative benchmark created by the ATSB investigation of Angel Flight (Aus). I’d bet there are representatives from AF (USA) speeding their way to Australia to make sure they are ‘full bottle’ on the new way; and, madly amending their manuals as we speak.
Of course EASA, FAA and CAA have already made legislative changes, to reflect the wisdom of Jonathan (where’s me marbles) Aleck. The wonderful, carefully constructed rules developed by CASA for AF will become international ‘best practice’ for dealing with cowboy outfits.
But, it will be at the NTSB where the really big changes will occur. How could any responsible, first world Safety authority ignore the stellar logic and brilliant conclusions of the ATSB in light of a report from the Australian DRRAT committee.
Ayup: I can really see all that happening. Can you imagine our very own HVH Hooded Canary standing up in front of the ICAO chair and his international peers; telling ‘em all what a wonderful job ‘his’ team of Catamites did on the Mt Gambier accident; and, just to add the gravy, wave this DRRAT committee report up as an exemplar of how to handle an inquiry.
A honest man would hide his head in shame; but, and it is a great big BUT children, a honest man would rather chew his leg off than be party to this shameless aberration. Another big BUT is how can the DRRAT committee be part of this gross distortion? Can they define exactly ‘how’ the ATSB report improves aviation safety? Can they provide a cost analysis to show what this pantomime of deception has cost the public?
I’d put the whole cast and crew in the Stocks and let the public pelt ‘em with rubbish – let ‘em know how it feels to have garbage thrown at you.
Doc. Gates summary is a little more eloquent, polite and educated:-
a. It is not clear how The Report reached the decision that its (the ATSB) work “is, by and large, considered by the committee to be world class”. Respectfully, the Senate did not review the work of the ATSB against any international standard or comparison that would permit it to draw such a conclusion. The conclusion goes well beyond the evidence available to it in this inquiry. This is a decision based on opinion, not evidence. It is not clear how the committee reached this decision.
b. The very fact that The Report draws attention to the problem that the ATSB did not interview any Angel Flight pilots (section 1.25), and that there are potential problems with the statistical analysis of the data by ATSB which still seem to not be fully understood by ATSB should raise, in our view, significant questions about the “world class” conclusion.
c. It is not clear how the conclusion was reached that “Nothing in this report is a criticism of ATSB’s investigation into any particular incident” when in fact the inquiry was ‘particularly’ into the 2017 Angel Flight accident. Respectfully, The Report is replete with identified problems with the ATSB investigation which, in our view, remain unresolved.
Toot – toot…