Inspector Critical of Qantas Audits

A former airworthiness inspector for Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has told a Senate committee that “barely 20 percent” of Qantas Airlines 24 overseas line maintenance bases have received a CASA audit since 2003. In a June submission to the Australian Senate committee, David Klein, who worked in the Sydney Airline Operations Office from November 1998 until February 2008, wrote that in his view, “the level of COA audit and Sydney Airline Office airworthiness resources in terms of manpower and financial support are totally unrealistic…”
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