A Victorian coroner has criticised a peak aviation body after new evidence appeared to show it had withheld documents outlining concerns around licensing a pilot who fatally crashed his plane.
A court has heard Recreational Aviation Australia withheld documents as part of an inquest into a pilot's death.A Victorian coroner has labelled allegations that Australia's largest administrator of pilots concealed its concerns about licensing a man who fatally crashed his plane "deeply troubling".Mr Farrell crashed his Jabiru plane in September 2022 in the Shelley State Forest while flying between Mount Beauty and Wollongong.
The documents brought forward as new evidence by barrister Patrick Over, who is representing Mr Farrell's fiancee Karen Waller, had not been disclosed to the police or at any time during the inquest. "Serious concerns were expressed by SAFA about Mr Farrell's appetite for risk," Mr Over told the court.The court also heard concerns that RAAus' legal representative, GSG Legal, failed to disclose an array of documents to police or the inquest despite their obligations as legal practitioners.
"The documents here, if I interpret them as they appear on their face, reveal conduct of the most troubling kind that is not restricted to one or two people within RAAus, but seems to have been within the knowledge of essentially the arms, the limbs, and the brain of the organisation," Coroner Lawrie said.
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