SHOOTING STRAIGHT By Bobit S. Avila (The Philippine Star) Updated September 27, 2012 12:00 AM
Apparently not all is well inside the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) where a CAAP official, Special Investigator Cesar Jose Lucero, filed an administrative case for “Grave misconduct/Conduct grossly and prejudicial to the Best interest of the Service” against respondents, CAAP Director General William Hotchkiss III, CAAP Deputy General Capt. John Cu-Unjieng Andrews, former CAAP Chief Ramon Gutierrez and a host of CAAP officials at the Office of the Ombudsman.
This was Lucero’s response to CAAP Director General Hotchkiss’ 90-day suspension against him for conducting a separate probe of the Robredo plane crash last Aug. 18. It was Cesar Lucero who emailed me the documents of this case… but I responded to him that he too was making unnecessary insinuations or judgment against the pilot Capt. Jessup Bahinting, like his insisting that the Seneca II was on a training flight… and that Capt. Bahinting’s body was found on the right side of the wreckage, without checking that the plane was upside down. I understand that SP01 Abrazado already told the CAAP investigating team that it was Capt. Bahinting who was piloting the plane before it crashed.
So how can we expect the Office of the Ombudsman to rule into this case when it is filled with aviation technicalities? It is for this reason why I have always called on Congress to enact a law creating the National Transportation & Safety Board (NTSB) in order to relieve our transportation agencies from investigating crash or maritime disasters.
I still support the move of CAAP Director General Hotchkiss to stop Lucero from spreading unfounded rumors about the Robredo plane crash. Meanwhile, I pity the foreign students of Aviatours Flying School who are still waiting for word from CAAP that their suspension be lifted. After all, the Robredo crash wasn’t a training flight and independent of flight training. Let’s hope that the case filed by Lucero will not smear the investigation being done by CAAP now.
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Last Tuesday (and yesterday), the Inquirer came up with a front page banner headline entitled “PH in illegal ivory trade” which was a report copied from the October issue of National Geographic magazine headlined “Blood Ivory.” Actually, I got hold of this information a couple of weeks ago, but since we are not in the business of sensationalizing news, I set the issue aside, until they blew this thing up last Tuesday.
Caught in the middle of this controversy is my good friend, Msgr. Cristobal Garcia, our former spiritual director of Bukas Loob sa Diyos (BLD) who was befriended by National Geographic author Bryan Christy. Unfortunately, Msgr. Garcia did not realize that Mr. Christy had a hidden agenda… to expose the supposed Ivory trade in the Philippines. So he ended up giving the author information on who are ivory carvers in Manila.
Being Cebu-based, no less than Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma and president of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a statement that the Catholic Church does not condone the killing of animals especially elephants in order to harvest their ivory tusks. Arch. Palma also pointed out that the Catholic Church respects God’s creation, which include all animals.
In fact, the Cebu Prelate recently signed up with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to transfer an elephant to Thailand from the Manila Zoo, which can provide better treatment for the animal. However the author falls short of proving the link of Msgr. Garcia to the ivory trade in the Philippines. It insinuates a lot, but proves nothing.
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