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More Beaker Bollocks - err..take??  

Before I go any further, please read Mike Chillit's answer to Q19/ of the ATSB dissatisfaction survey:  




IMO that answer/OP is as close an assessment of fact of the currently disgusting, uncreditable and dysfunctional condition of a once proud State AAI agency, that used to punch well above its weight.

Most of this parlous condition (IMO) can be slated to the inept, arrogant, ignorant, poorly informed & possibly captured (e.g. CASA & Malaysians)...

Of M&M #post96: http://auntypru.com/forum/-Of-Mandarins-...27#pid4327 

...Muppet in charge Beaker -

Which makes it all the more despicable that since the government went into caretaker mode, we have seen & heard more from Beaker than at any other time in the last 4-5 months. This is despite a growing chorus of public & professional discord with the management and disinformation of the MH370 investigation & search, being issued (or not) by the relevant authorities:    

Take two and action -

From ABC radio's World Today program:

MH370 search to be called off, recriminations likely after new book on disaster

MARTIN DOLIN: The Australian Government has given us $60 million and the Chinese Government has given us about $20 million, the total cost is about $180 million, if we have to complete the entire search area...

..PETER LLOYD: What is the current thinking about, the confidence you have about whether you're even in the right place?

MARTIN DOLIN: We always said that it was a matter of probability, not certainty, that the aircraft would be found in the area we are searching... 

..CHRISTINE NEGRONI: A triple seven was flying across the Malaysian peninsula off track, off course, off radio communication, perhaps off radar, definitely off radar transponder radio, headed towards Kuala Lumpar towards the Petronas Towers.

I mean that's a huge, frightening lapse in security and radar and air traffic control and, you know, in every respect that's terrible.

PETER LLOYD: By law, a crash investigation must be completed by Malaysia, but the Government says its hamstrung by Australia's failure to find the plane.

Christine Negroni believes that is a bogus claim, and worse still, she claims the crash investigation underway right now in Malaysia is a sham.

CHRISTINE NEGRONI: There is no evidence that this is more than just somebody saying, "Oh no, no, no - it's fine don't worry about it, move on.

PETER LLOYD: Who's going to hold them to account?

CHRISTINE NEGRONI: Well, and that really is the tragedy here, because I think because the aeroplane has not been found and may not be found, there is no sort of calling to account Malaysia.

Malaysia can simply sit back as it has and say without the aeroplane, we can't ever know. And that will be I think the, sort of, the conclusion of Malaysia 370; always a mystery, no-one will ever know and we don't know whether that is true.

KIM LANDERS: Aviation writer Christine Negroni ending Peter Lloyd's report.

Also today from Christine Negroni:

...Every year I attend the meeting of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators I am both impressed and frustrated by what is the two sides of the same coin. The specialists are knowledgeable in their specific areas which is good but closed-minded to the point of dismissive of the contributions of outsiders, which is not good.

Peter Fiegehen recognizes that “group-think, peer or other pressure” and “false hypothesis factors” now infect the official investigation into the mysterious disappearance of MH370. His idea of hitting the reset button is worth consideration. If an agency as cumbersome and bureaucratic as the UN’s ICAO sees the benefit of regular revision, what excuse is there for the resistance of agencies investigating one specific accident?

http://christinenegroni.com/independent-investigators-malaysia-370/

   

Most people (emphasis on people) under such professional & public scrutiny would choose to duck below the parapet and let someone else, like Foley or the JACC's Judith Zielke, front the media. But not Beaker here he is again in today's Oz (by Binger) - notice how much of his statements are in direct conflict to the MH370 court of public opinion:

MH370 search deadline may be extended

• Mitchell Bingemann
  
• The Australian
  
• May 20, 2016 12:00AM
  

The man in charge of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is set to extend the deadline to find the missing aircraft to August as wild winds and monster waves slow the operation down.

The hunt for the missing flight has entered the last 13,000sq km of its designated 120,000sq km search area and is scheduled to conclude by July.

But Martin Dolan — the chief of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau leading the $180 million effort on behalf of the Malaysian, Australian and Chinese governments — said it was likely to extend its deadline to early August as wild winter seas and 12m waves hampered investigators’ efforts.

“We have some way to go and our best bet is that we will complete that search late July/early August, depending on unforeseen circumstances,” he said.

Mr Dolan said there was no indication from the Australian, Malaysian or Chinese governments that the search would be expanded once the 120,000sq km area was covered.

“The technical capability is there to continue the search but the resources to do it is a matter for government,” he said.

Last week Mr Dolan acknowledged that Australian air crash investigators’ hopes that the missing Malaysian Airlines would be found were fading fast as time and space ran out.

“At this point there is a diminishing level of confidence that we will find the aircraft,” he said.

“There will be a lot of disappointment if we don’t find it. All the planning for this, all the technical staff and in particular the crews out on the water who have been doing a brilliant job, are going to be hugely disappointed because they have given two years of their life to this. At worst we will know at the end of this process that the area we have searched does not contain the aircraft. At best we will find it.”

In the two years since the plane disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers on board, just five pieces of debris believed to come from the aircraft have been found.

Last week two of those pieces — a part of an engine cowling and a panel segment from a main cabin — were confirmed by the ATSB to “almost certainly” come from the missing plane.

Mr Dolan said the discovery of these pieces were vindication that the bureau had been searching in the right place.

“We think we are searching in the right place because each of the locations of the debris was consistent with the drift modelling we’ve done,” he said.

“None of the findings are inconsistent with the analytical work we’ve done to determine the search area.”

Former US airline captain John Cox, who now runs an international air safety consultancy and has participated in several major air crash investigations, agreed.

“This adds evidence that the aeroplane is in the Indian Ocean and will provide the ocean current specialist more data to pinpoint the area of greatest likelihood to search,” he said.

“One of the great mysteries of MH370 is where is the debris? While these are only two pieces, it is debris. It is likely more will be found. MH370 remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.”

Should the search prove fruitless, the ATSB is working on a report for the government that will consider alternative possibilities for what happened to the plane, including the “rogue pilot” theory that the captain of MH370 hijacked his own aircraft and deliberately crashed it into the sea.

One possible positive with the extension, is that we will get to see how the new Chief Commissioner Greg Hood manages the ATSB last gasp efforts to locate MH370 (& without the Muppet hovering in the background) - an excellent first test for Hoody..


MTF...P2