Like I said, I am a former employee. The timeframe of when I had a rather interesting discussion with one of the members of the committee that did the assessment was around September of 2010. When I asked the question the sentiment of the response was we had to do an assessment because of those damn...

The winter road season was very short this year and what roads they did get in were very poor. Normally all that is flown in the summer is top ups for Hydro and gas for the locals. This particular load was for one of the companies own remote jet tanks. As for 802 that's an oops on my part for not di...

I am not a pilot. Yes, there were reports in the sms system regarding the safety of the pumps they were using, and they did do an actual risk assessment, I wasn't just told that it was an acceptable risk, that decision was arrived at by a committee. Myself and a few of the now former base managers q...

The purpose built pumps are available with Honda engines, which completely nulifies any basis for the reliability argument. A Honda will start no matter what it is bolted to.

Like I said, I am a former employee, and I came to them from a fuel handling/fitting background, so the use of the Honda pumps was a warranted concern to me, there are actually a fair number of pumps designed for just this purpose, these were the first two that come to my mind: http://www.grpumps.co...

The pumps they use are a standard 2 inch water pump. I fixed many of them. The difference between a water pump and an explosion proof one are bronze internals, a shield on the muffler to prevent it getting sprayed with fuel and a sealed aircraft style ignition system. They are slower and aren't Hond...

That leaves them with 3 flyable HS748's, the tanker 801(c-gltc) 806 (c-fffs) and 807(c-gmaa) and with the short winter road season they will be hurting for the fuel haul. 805 was the only small door they had left. As for the Honda pump, this was a load into their own remote tank, but this is standar...

It was Wasaya 805(c-fttw.) From what I have been able to gather it is a total loss and the fire was started by the Honda water pump that was being used to offload fuel. I questioned the safety of that many times during my time there, especially since I have a background in the petroleum industry. My...