UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN FINAL ROBREDO CRASH REPORT!

The final investigation report on the plane crash that killed former Interior and Local Government Sec. Jesse Robredo and two others is just as QUESTIONABLE and DEFICIENT as its predecessors.

Fiirst: WHY would the pilot, Captain Jessup Bahinting, fly the plane if he knew that it was UNSAFE, and might endanger his life and those of Robredo, the secretary’s aide and lone survivor Jun Abrasado and  pilot trainee Kshitiz Chand?

Only an insane person would risk his life even if he or she doesn’t have to. And as far as I know, there has been no proof of Bahinting’s mental instability at the time of the tragedy.

Second: PNoy did not mention if the side of Aviatour on the supposed ghost test flight was taken by crash investigators before the final report was prepared.

Was Aviatour’s side taken? If yes, what did the company say? If no, why not?

Third: The right-hand engine propeller of the plane was replaced in November 2011. A report was filed before the CAAP and Airworthiness Inspector Fernando Abalos approved a clearance for a one-hour test flight, followed by a “satisfactory” rating.

Fourth: Assuming that there was indeed no test flight what exactly, or technically, made the plane unsafe?

Fifth: Was the plane flown in the approximately nine months that followed before the crash last August? If yes, and no problem was ever reported, then that means the plane was airworthy at the time of the crash.

Otherwise, Aviatour would have grounded the aircraft long before if it had been problematic after the supposed ‘ghost’ test flight.

A pilot of a businessman whom I had consulted for this blog said that information can be found in the aircraft logbook. Would the investigating body be willing to show the contents of the logbook to the public or to media?

Sixth: The crash report said Aviatour flight instructor Capt. Federico Omolan III was supposedly asked by Bahinting to sign the test flight report even if he did not test it himself.

Did Omolan sign the test flight report? If yes, what will be his liabilities? Why didn’t he speak up right after the crash?

Seventh: Why was there NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of the CONTRADICTORY statements of Abrasado on what happened, especially after the crash? Why did investigators take his statements hook, line and sinker?

Eighth: IS THERE ANY PROOF that Abrasado had told the truth to investigators? Did anybody certify that Abrasado’s word can be taken for what it is?

As I’ve written before, THERE’S MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE in Robredo’s death. 

Even if the report cited by PNoy is the final and official findings by the government on the tragedy.

iT AIN’T OVER till everything’s CLEAR, boys and girls. HUWAG KAYONG PABUBULAG!  

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