Michael Slattery Quotations

Nothing is concrete. We are just discussing issues informally.

He was a passenger in a car we stopped and he never said a word, so he was released without charges,

There are tennis and basketball courts in Chili. How do you know if Chili residents are using them?

The air crew were performing their tasks diligently and in a controlled fashion.

The aircraft appeared to be functioning normally and was flown in a steady fashion,

Were you told ... there was any problem with the bell crank?

Were you told at any stage in the course of the ... maintenance work that there was any problem with the bell crank or that the bell crank was removed?

There's no proper record of the removal of the bell crank and its reinstallation,

A direction was given to remove the fore-aft bell crank ... and this was done,

It should have remained joined but was apparently not joined and was broken away,

The nose on the helicopter hit the ground at an angle slightly less than vertical,

The bolt appears to have come out of the bell crank and the question is why that came out.

Generally speaking, they're usually not looking at those opportunities unless there's some economic pressure to do so.

The helicopter then continued in a forward roll such that the helicopter then landed firstly on its roof and then on its port (left) side.

All was seemingly well until the last few seconds,