It seems that every time the senior management of Pel-Air open their mouths in public they take on more water.
In today’s Australian, Jim Davis, the managing director of REX, the regional airline that owns Pel-Air follows up the amazing admissions made earlier this week by Pel-Air chairman and former federal Transport Minister, John Sharp about [...]
Tag Archives: CASA
Pel-Air implicates itself deeper and deeper over ditching
November 21, 2009 – 8:15 am
Let’s get real about the Norfolk Island ditching
November 19, 2009 – 8:34 pm
(There are updates from CASA and the ATSB at the end of this post.)
Wednesday night’s ditching of a Pel-Air CareFlight medivac Westwind jet is being turned into a media circus by the airline and some very susceptible reporters.
First reported in the Crikey subscriber email today, the incident which left six people, half of them without [...]
Will air safety in Australia be reformed promptly, or after a disaster?
November 3, 2009 – 5:11 pm
Two safety critical issues arose today, in Crikey reports about a Qantas 767 descending too low with its wheels up as it approached Sydney last Monday, and about the informal relationship between Qantas and CASA and shoddy foreign maintenance.
They raise again the question as to whether the public administration of air safety in Australia is [...]
CASA, Qantas and unanswered safety allegations
October 31, 2009 – 10:08 am
In the spirit of brave rather than ‘cowardly’ criticism, when will CASA deal with a series of allegations about unsafe practices by Qantas last year raised by the licensed engineers union?
Not deal with, as in, have a spokesman dismiss them as immaterial or industrially motivated.
But deal with, as in investigate and publish detailed findings, and [...]
Plain talking about CASA and the media
October 30, 2009 – 10:36 am
The new CEO of CASA, John McCormick, made some comments about its critics at the conclusion of a Senate Estimates Committee hearing on October 20.
The white or final Hansard record is less entertaining than accounts of the pink or first draft Hansard, but let’s look at the former, since it constitutes the public record.
Before [...]
Fines levied against two major US carriers highlight compromised air safety enforcement in Australia
October 15, 2009 – 5:05 pm
Penalties totalling about AUD $10 million filed by the US safety regulator the FAA against United and US Airways overnight are a sharp reminder of how derelict Australian regulators are when it comes to comparable breaches by Qantas and REX.
Neither Qantas nor REX has been prosecuted or fined over gross violations of the safety [...]
Dark brother is watching you, and sometimes its own
June 15, 2009 – 5:43 pm
Ever noticed a persistent sound of an aircraft in the sky that seems to come and go for long intervals yet is never there when you look?
It’s probably a police helicopter, or a quiet fixed wing aircraft, engaged in lawful surveillance.
Their existence would not be readily confirmed if it wasn’t for the fact that they [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-CASA is fixing the poor state of air safety in far northern Queensland
June 3, 2009 – 1:31 pm
An anonymous informant who made a detailed complaint about what he or she saw as inadequate safety oversight in far northern Queensland and on routes to Palm Island in particular appears to have won major safety reforms for those flying to remote communities.
CASA is moving to end such dangerous and discriminatory practices [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-CASA and REX under fire
May 13, 2009 – 12:52 pm
The managing director of REX, Jim Davis, now says that the emergency descent made by one of its SAAB 340s on its way from Sydney to Wagga Wagga on 7 May was ‘just a maintenance error and nothing wrong with the plane.’
Sorry. Just a maintenance error is scarcely a reason for brushing off the [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-Palm Islanders get palmed off by CASA
May 12, 2009 – 2:58 pm
It’s almost two weeks since a visitor to the lounge drew attention to an apparent illegality in the carriage of air travellers to Palm Island.
In the aftermath of a damning audit of CASA’s oversight of air safety in Australia by ICAO the issue was again raised in the Crikey Daily Mail today.
There is no excuse [...]
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