The ‘discovery’ of another fake licensed engineer at Qantas and rumours of more to come begs the question as to whether CASA does anything useful.
In the previous two years CASA has shown that it can detect serious failings in small regional carriers like the defunct third level carrier Transair, which killed 15 people in the [...]
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Fake Qantas engineers. Does CASA do anything useful?
February 8, 2009 – 9:46 am
Good idea, wrong result
September 30, 2008 – 12:23 pm
This mostly matters to those who don’t like flying at the best of times and have to use crappy country airstrips like the ones the pilots of a larger airliner would only contemplate if they were on fire.
Navigating into rough strips like the one at Lockhart River where Transair hit a hill on approach killing [...]
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