Questions, from the man at the back of the room III.
Patrick did well enough, considering. He may have done a little better and penetrated a little deeper had he been briefed a little better; or, had he not been limited to questioning a lawyer and a man who played a major role in the persecution of the pilot. Both as desperate to bury this mouldering, corrupting Pel-Air corpse as the others lurking behind the curtains. Mind you, there was some tongue in cheek, slap-stick comedy relief:-
Senator PATRICK: Will you be presenting this particular report at the International Society of Air Safety Investigators conference this year?
Mr Hood: Not to my understanding.
Senator PATRICK: Normally you present significant reports to that conference. My understanding is the ATSB turns up and often makes presentations there.
As if. Cracked me up, the notion of Hood in his Hi-Viz outfit, standing up in front of the worlds leading accident investigators spruiking the Pel-Air report as a gold standard work piece. A ‘legal’ conference may appreciate the devious subtleties; they may well even applaud. But to an international convention of air safety folk, experts? Nah, best send O’Sullivan – he has more claim to expertise than Hood, just ask him, he’ll tell ya.
The inimitable, ever pragmatic Gallacher puts the final touches to an ugly picture.
Senator GALLACHER: I don't think the issue will go away. That's my last comment.
Mine too. Men like Sterle and Gallacher are not so easy to bamboozle and may not be brain-baffled by bull-pooh. Perhaps they may yet see that the ‘real’ story and the evil in it lay in the aftermath of the incident. Gods know, the ditching was a simple enough affair – it was the investigation and the fall out from that which prompted a Senate inquiry. The report is a red herring – what occurred afterwards was disgusting. Time the lid was ripped off that can o’worms.
Seems CASA are next on Joe’s menu; what a treat. This performance is a well rehearsed, highly polished and a masterpiece in the art of smoke and mirrors. One needs to be armed with ‘fact’ and listen very, very carefully to discern just ‘how’ the trick was performed. At the first ‘watch and listen’ the performance appears seamless. To discover just how it was managed you must not only break it down into small, bite sized pieces, but must look carefully at what is going on behind the spotlight. So, where to start? That is a tough question to answer, for example , if we had all the information about the Falcon-Air and the behind the scenes and were able to reveal ‘certain’ facts, then matters would be easier to understand. Alas. No matter we shall do our best with what we have.
I’ll leave it here for now; with a clue. In every bare faced lie, there must be a grain of truth. An inescapable fact – like ‘all the pilots were not properly qualified’ this supported by ‘audit’ evidence. That may well be fact, but is it all the fact? Is it a full explanation of ‘all’ the facts and circumstances? On a fine, legal point stretched to the extreme of the law, it is a lawyers picnic. Which is probably a good way to view the CASA tapes.
Joe Q, may have the day off – MTF.
Toot toot.
Patrick did well enough, considering. He may have done a little better and penetrated a little deeper had he been briefed a little better; or, had he not been limited to questioning a lawyer and a man who played a major role in the persecution of the pilot. Both as desperate to bury this mouldering, corrupting Pel-Air corpse as the others lurking behind the curtains. Mind you, there was some tongue in cheek, slap-stick comedy relief:-
Senator PATRICK: Will you be presenting this particular report at the International Society of Air Safety Investigators conference this year?
Mr Hood: Not to my understanding.
Senator PATRICK: Normally you present significant reports to that conference. My understanding is the ATSB turns up and often makes presentations there.
As if. Cracked me up, the notion of Hood in his Hi-Viz outfit, standing up in front of the worlds leading accident investigators spruiking the Pel-Air report as a gold standard work piece. A ‘legal’ conference may appreciate the devious subtleties; they may well even applaud. But to an international convention of air safety folk, experts? Nah, best send O’Sullivan – he has more claim to expertise than Hood, just ask him, he’ll tell ya.
The inimitable, ever pragmatic Gallacher puts the final touches to an ugly picture.
Senator GALLACHER: I don't think the issue will go away. That's my last comment.
Mine too. Men like Sterle and Gallacher are not so easy to bamboozle and may not be brain-baffled by bull-pooh. Perhaps they may yet see that the ‘real’ story and the evil in it lay in the aftermath of the incident. Gods know, the ditching was a simple enough affair – it was the investigation and the fall out from that which prompted a Senate inquiry. The report is a red herring – what occurred afterwards was disgusting. Time the lid was ripped off that can o’worms.
Seems CASA are next on Joe’s menu; what a treat. This performance is a well rehearsed, highly polished and a masterpiece in the art of smoke and mirrors. One needs to be armed with ‘fact’ and listen very, very carefully to discern just ‘how’ the trick was performed. At the first ‘watch and listen’ the performance appears seamless. To discover just how it was managed you must not only break it down into small, bite sized pieces, but must look carefully at what is going on behind the spotlight. So, where to start? That is a tough question to answer, for example , if we had all the information about the Falcon-Air and the behind the scenes and were able to reveal ‘certain’ facts, then matters would be easier to understand. Alas. No matter we shall do our best with what we have.
I’ll leave it here for now; with a clue. In every bare faced lie, there must be a grain of truth. An inescapable fact – like ‘all the pilots were not properly qualified’ this supported by ‘audit’ evidence. That may well be fact, but is it all the fact? Is it a full explanation of ‘all’ the facts and circumstances? On a fine, legal point stretched to the extreme of the law, it is a lawyers picnic. Which is probably a good way to view the CASA tapes.
Joe Q, may have the day off – MTF.
Toot toot.