Originally Posted by
Avroman
It wouldn't completey protect them because it wasn't a sole source disclosure. Obviously ATC knew they flew well past their destnation with no communication. And as such ATC could be a second source of notification to the FAA of the incident. So no pure immunity under ASAP or ASRS.
If it's pure sole-source, you don't even need to bother with an ASAP or ASRS (except to offer up some safety data). Of course, you almost never know for SURE that it's sole source.
Mesa has no ASAP, but a NASA form would have probably saved them a suspension...I'm amazed they were stupid enough to not file one. They still would have still been fired (nasa has nothing to do with that) and still would have been violated, but they would not have been suspended...unless they had already used their nasa silver bullet in the last five years.
NASA (ASRS) will NOT work under these conditions:
- Criminal Activity
- Intentional Act
- Actual damage/injury occurs
- Pilot has been violated in the past five years.
I'm pretty sure you could make a case that over-sleeping your destination was not intentional.