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I think that something needs to be done here. I see an unsatisfactory pattern.
Pike River happens and the police won’t do anything possibly because it might disturb a crime scene. The family were disturbed for sure. The government couldn’t do anything.
Whakaari – NZ had a monitoring system which worked like other stats – a method drawn up and continual following of practice – excellent for recording changes but who looked at when safety precautions should be imposed. Authorities have taken action against a pilot who took early action on a humanitarian basis.
A tourist fell into a Queenstown lake 2018 and drowned….A Californian family have an underwater drone ready to look for the body of their son, who drowned in a South Island lake when a skydiving jump went wrong.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/420829/californian-family-s-bid-to-recover-son-s-body-from-nz-lake-rejected…Police say a drone the Americans have for the search is not good enough – even though its operator says the sonar works at 500 metres deep and the search site is about 350m deep. The government couldn’t do anything.
Still no amending legioslation has been passed. Government has still not done anything.
But the relevant body is finding investigation is slower and costing more, with less done per year.
Its target was to spend between $300,000 and $350,000 per inquiry and it was expected to complete between 15 and 25 by the end of December. As of December 17 it had closed 11 at an average cost of $409,000.
“The longer an inquiry remains open, the higher the overhead component of the cost is. The older inquiries closed during this period, coupled with a lower number of closed inquiries overall, significantly increased the average cost during the reporting period,” a Ministry of Transport briefing noted.’
But earlier in 2021 –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/441644/taic-investigation-team-loses-13-of-17-staff-in-5-years
Since 2016, nine accident investigators and four investigations managers have left out of a total team of 17. Six of the resignations were retirements…
Staff described a toxic work culture with one manager “constantly losing [their] temper, shouting and harassing”…
However staff said at least four people had complained of bullying and two staff had left because of workplace culture concerns and had signed non-disclosure agreements…
“The worry is that the rapid erosion of highly trained, experienced and motivated staff and leaders will leave TAIC unable to protect the public from latent or hidden safety issues going forward.”
And about tourists and balloons and parachuting – NZ can’t be bothered following rules and guidelines which makes us unsafe; are we a bunch of cowboys? My local tourist insert advertising new adventures starting up again in 2022 chose a hot air balloon which is so attractive yet within a short time one had been in an accident, this time a pilot was injured. Why? Perhaps this report gives a clue.
Pilots ejected from hot air balloons due to not wearing …
https://www.nzherald.co.nz › nz › pilots-ejected-from-hot…
16/03/2022 — Pilots in two different hot air balloon accidents were thrown from the baskets on landing due to not wearing harnesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Carterton_hot_air_balloon_crash