Senate debates

Monday, 1 September 2025

Questions without Notice

Hamilton Island: Mrh-90 Taipan Crash

2:55 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Comcare investigation lays out that Defence knew that the TopOwl helmet displays could tell the pilots the incorrect altitude, that the risk was of controlled flight into terrain with the consequence of serious injury or death, that Defence overrode their own internal systems to field the equipment anyway and that the pilots of the crashed helicopter were flying at low altitude in the dark—a high risk for this hazard. Why did the prosecutor not progress this case?

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