[thorn bird]

Hardly a ramble shipmate, there was once a sign above an infamous german factory

"Work shall set you free" which turned out to be a monstrous lie.

Some people also say "Truth shall set you free" which also is a monstrous lie, because CAsA simply do NOT tell the truth.

Your ramble illustrates just what a national disgrace CAsA has been allowed to become.

Simplistically, the Airtex debacle was fomented by a psychotic lunatic at the top, who much as in the shutdown of Tiger airways was desperate to show what big Kahoonas he had and executed by a sociopathic acolyte with a pathological hatred for the CEO of Avtex.

The collateral damage these two scumbags caused to a lot of very innocent people can never be recovered nor the considerable public money spent by the protagonist to prosecute this travesty and the personal fortune of the victim attempting to defend themselves.

The industry is poorer, the pursuit of safety is poorer, the country is poorer.

Given the treatment of PEL air the whole notion of a fair go given the lie by CAsA's unconscionable behaviour. One could be forgiven the notion that CAsA's actions are governed by the size of the political donations.

Karma? Pel air losing the defence contract? or someone turned up with a better deal for the politicians. What is very clear a bomb was put under CAsA to fast track their paperwork.
Skidmark looking after his RAAF mates??, maybe, but somewhere, as with so many things, I suspect the hand of a Murky mandarin.

One ray of sunshine.

At least the rabbit has vacated his warren, one hopes if there are any white hats left in Sydney region they can repair the toxic environment he left behind. Bit of a waste of time but, there's very little industry left to regulate.

Maybe Wodger has been looking with envy at ASA and the possibilities for mayhem available to him in that dysfunctional organisation, he was running out of victims in NSW region, what he hadn't managed to shutdown is struggling, strangled by the straight jacket of Part 61.