Fatal PNG air crashes ‘not investigated’
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The authorities in Papua New Guinea has not properly considered 19 fails, the air-16 people killed, including three Australians and New Zealanders, three. The lack of means and equipment are the responsibility of the failure of PNG’s Civil Aviation Authority Department of Transport and, in the whole of the aircraft and the helicopter goes down since 2000, despite the legislation in the year 2004 for the creation of a Commission-Air Accident. A phone call to PNG’s Department of Transportation asked to speak to Air accident investigators from the Commission have not set up this type. Some outages have been partially studied, but others not at all. An officer initiated PNG Civil Aviation Authority said that the current situation was a “disgrace”, constitutes a danger to the lives of all in the region. “If people think of the blackout, Garuda Indonesia is bad, this is not what’s happening here,” he said. “The lack of investigation phones, fax machines, computers or resources to study breaks down,” he said. “I feel for the families of victims. “The situation is life-threatening. How can formulate recommendations will be made in the absence of observations, why plane disappeared? “There are no commissions of inquiry and not partial, is not legally binding,” he said. Director General of the PNG Airline Islands Nationair, Peter Bonniface, said the institution had begun its own investigation in cooperation with the engine manufacturer Rolls Royce in an accident in the last month with one of its own helicopters. “There’s plane in the bush, which have not yet been studied,” he said. “It is a question of funding. Some say it is not a question of money, some say, it is not shared by controls that will be, “he said. PNG’s Department of Transport admitted 19 accidents since 2000, have not been explored yet. “Of the 19 accidents, seven (two were fatal) were studied on the ground is not because of the non-availability of sufficient resources, Henry Parakei secretary said in a statement, the AAP. “The rest could not be completed before investigators are equipped with communication and other facilities necessary to carry out his research at sea,” he said. But PNG Minister for Transport, said Don Poyle times one million kina ($ A400, 000) has been undertaken by the Department of Finance, Air Accident Insurance Commission would be under way in three weeks’ time. “I am not saying that things are great, but I am not saying that things are pretty bad,” he said. “The airways are surely in PNG. “Investigations are carried out, and once that the Commission will consider the reports are published,” he said. PNG is a member of the Organization of International Civil Aviation (ICAO) that studies in aerospace and updates on non-fault accidents. A delegation of ICAO takes in Port Moresby next month for a review, and domestic and international flights are set to land, when he finds PNG aviation is uncertain. PNG’s mountainous landscape, and the lack of roads means internal air transport is crucial for the country six million of citizens. The economy, politics and tourism to more than 12 airlines throughout the region. Australian pilot was killed in PNG outages in July 2004, February 2005 and October 2006. |