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Caa Facing More Problems

The Caa’s worries over the Seaview Air accident are large enough, but more revelations about forged paperwork associated with imported second-hand aircraft have only added to the Authority’s problems. Further, the Mig-15 jet fighters flown by civilian warbirds operators have been grounded following the discovery — according to newspaper reports — that some had forged logbooks and should never have been reflown. A Caa internal memo reportedly says that the second batch of five Migs “were not in any way authorised to be flown and not to be flown under any circumstances”. Despite this, permits to fly were issued by the Caa and it was one of these aircraft from the second batch which crashed near Canberra in March last year.

More claims of forged logbooks come from an aircraft dealer who told a television station that many second-hand light aircraft have been brought into Australia with false identities, logbooks and maintenance records. Mr Graham Butler told Channel 9 that the aircraft were obtained from corrupt Us drug enforcement agents who created new identities for the aircraft and then sold them.

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