Safety oversight


Qantas CEO glosses over airline’s safety record

Having amnesia about the true and documented state of affairs at Qantas is not going to help CEO Alan Joyce, writes Ben Sandilands.

Senate questions over CASA crash and burn

There is a very bad smell hanging over conduct of CASA in relation to safety oversight of Transair, the now defunct remote community airline that killed 15 people in the Lockhart River crash of 7 May 2005, writes Ben Sandilands.

CASA calls for the cone of silence

CASA may be incapable of the safety oversight of airlines as small as Transair (which killed 15 people near Lockhart River in 2005) but it is getting big on secrecy.