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Investigation Methods- Case Study

   

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CASE STUDY2ContentsIntroduction.....................................................................................................................................3Investigation Legal Context.............................................................................................................4ATSB.............................................................................................................................................4Investigation Conducted..............................................................................................................5Using Evidence in Investigation.......................................................................................................7Background..................................................................................................................................7Case Study....................................................................................................................................8Effectiveness of the Investigation..................................................................................................11Conclusion......................................................................................................................................13References.....................................................................................................................................15

CASE STUDY3Introduction A Beech Super King Air 200 aircraft, departed from Western Australia’s Perth at 1009 UTC, onSeptember 04th, 2000 on a charter flight to Leonara with seven passengers on board with onepilot (Griffioen, 2009; Klan, 2017). Till 1032, the operations and communications of the aircraftwith the pilot all seemed to be normal. Though, after a very short while of the aircraft climbingthrough the altitude which was assigned, the speech of the pilot became majorly impaired andhe was not able to respond to the instructions of the ATS. There was a progressivedeterioration of the pilot over the next eight minutes which was revealed through the openmicrophone transmissions and the pilot became unconscious; and there was also an absence ofany sort of sounds of the passenger activity from the aircraft (Australian Transport SafetyBureau, 2014). For the remainder of the flight, no human response of any sort could bedetected. After five hours of take off from Western Australia’s Perth, the aircraft came incontact with ground near Queensland’s Burketown and was completely destroyed with nosurvivors (International Aviation Safety Association, 2017). The crash resulted in an investigation being conducted into the accident which was referred toas “Ghost Flight” (Thomas, 2011). The purpose of conducting this investigation was to establishif the accident was caused due to negligence or for any other reasons and to evaluate thereason behind this accident. In the following parts, the investigation conducted in this contexthas been evaluated whereby the evidence used in this investigation, along with theeffectiveness of the conducted investigation has been elucidated.

CASE STUDY4Investigation Legal Context ATSBThe ATSB, i.e., the Australian Transport Safety Bureau is an operational autonomous multi-modal Bureau which comes within the “Commonwealth Department of Transport and RegionalServices” (Australian Transport Safety Bureau, 2017a). The safety investigations conducted byATSB are independent of the operator, regulatory or the other external bodies. Through theDirector of Air Safety Investigation, in terms of aviation, the ATSB has been given theresponsibility for the investigation of accidents, incidents, safety deficiencies and seriousaccidents which involve the operations of civil aircraft in the nation, and it also participates inthe overseas investigations of serious incidents and accidents where the Australian registeredaircrafts are involved (Skybrary, 2017). The investigations are not the only thing conducted bythe ATSB as it also studies the aviation systems for identification of the underlying factors andthe trends which have the possibility of adversely affecting the safety (Revolvy, 2017). The basicconcern here is for the safety of the commercial air transport and a specific emphasis is madeto the fare paying passenger operations (Australian Transport Safety Bureau, 2000). The aviation functions are performed by the ATSB as per the provisions covered under Part 2Aof the Air Navigation Act, 1920 (Austlii, 2017). Under section 19CA, of this act, the investigationsare conducted with the object of determining the situations which surround the accidents,safety deficiency, serious incident or incident for prevention of occurrences of similar events(Federal Register of Legislation, 2008). This determination results in the formation of the basefor the advisory notices, safety recommendations, accident prevention programs, safety

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