Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee (part 2 of 2)
19 June 2026
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Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:29
Speaker 11
This, and it's in your report, that they were... They enter into a low visibility area, a rain shower. I think we can all agree almost no visibility. They they lose sight of the aircraft in front of them, and then they bank hard to the right and then bank off to the left. And then very soon after, barely seconds afterwards, there's a controlled flight into the ground, into the into the into the sea.
00:30 - 01:00
Speaker 12
The exact circumstances identified in the AIDS report. And the way you avoid responsibility for it all is you say, oh, no. No. No. No.
We've we've looked at this, and we think even though they bank right and even though they bank left, they never look left or right. They always kept their eyes straight ahead. That's the get out of jail free card you'd have, isn't it? It's they always look straight ahead, and that is pure speculation.
01:02 - 01:51
Speaker 10
So, Sam, if if I could offer, having flown, you know, rotary wing formation operations throughout my career with different systems, and I'm not an MRH pilot, but I have flown on the, helmet mounted sighting device on the Tiger helicopter. It has the same equipment but different software, or I've used other heads up display systems which present you with information to aid mileage because that's what we're talking about here. When you are flying, because you have a a given field of view for your systems, no matter what the night vision system is, it will have constraints in its field of view. So you are constantly scanning, as you go.
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