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Title

QUESTIONS ON NOTICE

Civil Aviation Safety Authority

Database

Senate Hansard

Date

07-08-2007

Source

Senate

Parl No.

41

Electorate

Tasmania

Interjector

 

Page

149

Party

ALP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

2758

Questioner

O’Brien, Sen Kerry

Responder

Johnston, Sen David

Speaker

 

Stage

Civil Aviation Safety Authority

Type

 

Context

Answers to Questions on Notice

System Id

chamber/hansards/2007-08-07/0211


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Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Page: 149


Senator O’Brien asked the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and Regional Services, upon notice, on 13 November 2006:

(1)   Can the Minister confirm that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) issued air operator’s certificate (AOC) number BN426646-30 to Transair on 30 September 2005 authorising Transair to conduct regular public transport operations in aircraft including a Fairchild SA227-DC with the serial number DC-818B and registration mark VH-TFU.

(2)   Can the Minister confirm that a Fairchild SA 227-DC with the serial number DC-818B and registration mark VH-TFU operated by Transair was destroyed at Lockhart River on 7 May 2005 in a tragedy that cost 15 lives.

(3)   Why did CASA issue an AOC to Transair in September 2005 authorising the operator to carry passengers on an aircraft that had been destroyed in one of Australia’s worst aviation disasters 4 months earlier.


Senator Johnston (Minister for Justice and Customs) —The Minister for Transport and Regional Services has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question:

(1)   Yes.

(2)   Yes.

(3)   CASA advises that this was an administrative oversight which was not detrimental to aviation safety.