Mobil Legal Class Actions Airborne
 
As the previously grounded aircraft at Archerfield and from around the country slowly crawl back into the sky after decontamination procedures and retesting on the Mobil fuel contamination issue - two large scale legal class actions have commenced in the Courts of Law against Mobil for compensation
 
Slater & Gordon lodged a class action for unspecified damages in the Melbourne Supreme Court on behalf of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and a further 80 companies operating 500 aircraft of mostly Moorabbin based aircraft owners and operators joined for a $100million class action launched by law firm Maurice Blackman Cashman in the Federal Court
 
Further information on the AOPA based action is available at Slater and Gordon's web page - click HERE to view

Details on most of the news media coverage over the past week has been recorded by this News Desk and available for viewing in text format

• Click HERE for about 9 pages (printed) of various articles
  
• and still more HERE for the various media articles and coverage of the subject

News Desk Observation

The OZ light aircraft industry still on descent from the mid '80's' has encountered severe CAT* and can now expect a rough and bouncy ride ahead
 
* Clear Air Turbulence or Class Action (no win - no charge) Traders

CASA Boss Mick Toller assembled for a media conference on the tarmac at Canberra Airport for what should have been the first plane cleared by the test since 5,000 aircraft were grounded on January 10
 
Toller had hoped to boost confidence in the system by flying the first aircraft cleared by the new test procedures
 

The effort fell flat in front of the TV cameras when mechanics frantically called him back during his taxi out after parts had been cannibalised from the Seneca he was piloting