A quiet, valuable achievement.
K Sheppard A Wilson. At the Coroners inquest.
I don’t expect a head of steam would achieve very much; fury after the fact is of little value. But I am curious about the selection of witnesses to appear in this below the radar coroner’s inquiry. I am also curious that the only published article we could find was a very crafty piece published in the AAP loop which reads as though young Wilson ‘killed’ Sheppard and that the inquest was all about one death, not two. Considering the amount of press Hempel and others got, you could reasonably expect a little more coverage. The only reason I can fathom is that very few people even knew the inquest was on. Certainly several who had been advised that they were to be witness did not. Gutted, gobsmacked and angry are some of the comments.
No doubt it was all done legal and nice, the coroner really only to do his job and determine the cause of death, not too many facts needed for that – two killed in a crash: full stop. CASA lift up the carpet, ATSB sweep the mess underneath; everyone off to lunch. Nothing to see move along.
There was even a trite, mealy mouthed recommendation from the coroner:-
Read that half a dozen times, carefully
Pure fiction. Had we been invited or even informed of the scheduled date, I and others would have very much liked to be there, if only just to listen to the ATSB/CASA discourse which prompted such a recommendation; I really would. Must have been a work of art and with no dissention offered, a very easy piece to sell.
Does this imply that people did not turn up for interview; or, perhaps many witnesses were not summoned to interview; or, CASA did not bother to interview anyone? Many had ATSB interviews, several provided empirical evidence, we can’t find any one witness (yet) who was informed of the inquest, let alone attended.
As I say, all neat and tidy, dry as dust and no skin off the watchdog’s arse. If you thought the handling of Pel-Air was a clever bit of legerdemain, Canley Vale will blow your socks off: the ATSB report is a good place to start. ATSB may well have written the ‘technical’ analysis, for what that’s worth, but the back end was pure malice aforethought and had little to do with the accident; just the politics of yet another predetermined result.
As the members of the Senate standing committee have been advised on several occasions; you think Pel-Air was a rum do? Brothers, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Just take a peep under that plush, expensive carpet, then tell me what you see. We cannot stop this from happening, perhaps you can. But after the nett result on Pel-Air, we wonder.
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
This ain’t good enough, not by a bloody long shot.
Selah.
K Sheppard A Wilson. At the Coroners inquest.
I don’t expect a head of steam would achieve very much; fury after the fact is of little value. But I am curious about the selection of witnesses to appear in this below the radar coroner’s inquiry. I am also curious that the only published article we could find was a very crafty piece published in the AAP loop which reads as though young Wilson ‘killed’ Sheppard and that the inquest was all about one death, not two. Considering the amount of press Hempel and others got, you could reasonably expect a little more coverage. The only reason I can fathom is that very few people even knew the inquest was on. Certainly several who had been advised that they were to be witness did not. Gutted, gobsmacked and angry are some of the comments.
No doubt it was all done legal and nice, the coroner really only to do his job and determine the cause of death, not too many facts needed for that – two killed in a crash: full stop. CASA lift up the carpet, ATSB sweep the mess underneath; everyone off to lunch. Nothing to see move along.
There was even a trite, mealy mouthed recommendation from the coroner:-
Quote:2. That CASA undertake public consultations in order to assist CASA in the development of a legislative proposal enabling CASA to compel the attendance of persons at compulsory sworn interviews to answer questions concerning specific aviation and safety measures where a reasonable suspicion exists that; a. a significant safety risk exists or existed in an aviation operation; and
b. evidence of a witness or witnesses likely to have knowledge of an aviation safety risk cannot be obtained in any other way.
Read that half a dozen times, carefully
Quote:"enabling CASA to compel the attendance of persons at compulsory sworn interviews to answer questions concerning specific aviation and safety measures where a reasonable suspicion exists that; a. a significant safety risk exists or existed in an aviation operation; etc."
Pure fiction. Had we been invited or even informed of the scheduled date, I and others would have very much liked to be there, if only just to listen to the ATSB/CASA discourse which prompted such a recommendation; I really would. Must have been a work of art and with no dissention offered, a very easy piece to sell.
Quote:“to compel the attendance of persons at compulsory sworn interviews”
Does this imply that people did not turn up for interview; or, perhaps many witnesses were not summoned to interview; or, CASA did not bother to interview anyone? Many had ATSB interviews, several provided empirical evidence, we can’t find any one witness (yet) who was informed of the inquest, let alone attended.
As I say, all neat and tidy, dry as dust and no skin off the watchdog’s arse. If you thought the handling of Pel-Air was a clever bit of legerdemain, Canley Vale will blow your socks off: the ATSB report is a good place to start. ATSB may well have written the ‘technical’ analysis, for what that’s worth, but the back end was pure malice aforethought and had little to do with the accident; just the politics of yet another predetermined result.
As the members of the Senate standing committee have been advised on several occasions; you think Pel-Air was a rum do? Brothers, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Just take a peep under that plush, expensive carpet, then tell me what you see. We cannot stop this from happening, perhaps you can. But after the nett result on Pel-Air, we wonder.
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
This ain’t good enough, not by a bloody long shot.
Selah.