CASA is Aussie Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
source:Aussie (7 News) - New photos show the damage to the Qantas plane. (Wed 10 Jan 2007, 06:54 PM)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070110/23/120t9.html
Photos show hole in Qantas jumbo,By 7NewsThe(Aussie) federal Transport Minister has ordered a report into why aviation authorities did not investigate a Qantas jumbo, which flew with huge holes ripped in its fuselage.
Qantas Flight 5 blew a tyre on take-off from Singapore last year and the debris tore holes in the side of the plane.
When the incident was made public last night, Qantas angrily denied the accuracy of a computer-aided reconstruction of the damage.
But 7News has exclusively obtained photographic evidence of the damage.
The shots show a one metre gash and a metre wide hole in the underside of the 747.
The damage was to the fairings, a non-structural outer skin, as confirmed by Alan Stray of the Air Transport Safety Bureau.
"No, it wasn't a big hole in the side of the aircraft per se," Mr Stray said. "It was a fairing."
Former Civil Aviation Safety Authority Chairman Dick Smith said the incident should have been investigated. It was not.
Using reports from Qantas and German investigators, Australian safety regulators ruled there was no danger to plane or passengers.
"That's the nature of investigations around the world, that you gather as much evidence as you can and make an assessment and that's how we did it," Mr Stray said.
But Federal Transport Minister Mark Vaile has decided to reopen the case.
"I've asked for a full report from the regulatory authorities in Australia on what actually happened in Singapore and the action that's been taken," Mr Vaile said.
Aviation regulators deny Dick Smith's claims that they are easy on Qantas.
But CASA does admit that many of its safety investigations are conducted in secret.
"The risk would be if we conducted all of our business, our safety business, with airlines in public, is that the airlines would clam up," CASA's Peter Gibson said.
2.If proper maintenancre were carried out,accidents are just fate.
Buy to cover up any incidents are wrong.
3.Strait times today 11.Jan 2007,page 14,
Tilte:Qantas jet flew with hole in fuselage, by Roger Maynard ,in Sygney,quoting Former Civil Aviation Safety Authority Chairman Dick Smith,
.Flight QF 5,bound for Frankfurt,.....carrying 408 people on March 8 last year.....
But a former Chairman of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority ,Mr Dick Smith,claimed that investigation often felt intimiated by Qantas.
''Employees have told me if we stood up to Qantas,we wouldn't have a career path''he said.
But man, you sure have a bone to pick with all your against australia threads huh?