The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 7

Saturday, July 3,1993 7 The Sydney Morning Herald Headmasters took an independent approach Bid to prevent runway disaster take-off by just 1 1 metres. The BASI report, released this week, found that although the Thai Airlines pilots had been aware that Sydney Airport operated its two intersecting runways simultaneously, they had not recognised the control tower instruction because it was "embedded" in other instructions. Both pilots also had difficulty identifying the intersection of the runways. The Thai Airways pilots braked heavily and came to a halt with the nose of the aircraft protruding into the intersection. The Ansett pilot pulled away 30 metres above the ground, but even this was not faultless as there was some confusion in the cockpit over which pilot was flying the plane and both had their hands on activated controls for 12 seconds.

The resulting investigation By ANNE DAVIES CANBERRA: The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation is calling for new procedures for Sydney Airport's intersecting runways to prevent a major disaster. The move follows a report into an incident two years ago which came close to being Australia's worst air disaster, involving three planes with 661 passengers, when a Thai Airways jet overshot the intersection. On August 12, 1991, a Thai DC-10 landing on the long north-south runway failed to pull up short of the east-west runway intersection, where an Ansett A320 flight was coming in to land. At the last minute, the Ansett pilot, fearing the Thai flight would not stop, executed an emergency "go around" with its wing tip clearing the Thai jet and a fully laden Qantas 747 awaiting revealed several serious shortcomings with what is known in the aviation industry as SIMOPS the simultaneous operations of the crossing runways, in which aircraft landing on the longer north-south runway are required to pull up short of the intersection of the east-west runway. The procedures had some "fundamental BASI said, noting there had been five such incidents between August 1990 and August 1991.

"They relied on near perfect human performance despite a history of active failures," BASI said. Some of the shortcomings were rectified but the BASI report calls for further changes. BASI director Dr Robert Lee said yesterday BASI believed more changes were needed to ensure that planes did not coincide at the runway intersection. He also called for a full risk assessment and further computer modelling. "We simply don't know what the risk is," he said.

But the CAA's general manager of air traffic services, Mr Buck Brooksbank, said yesterday the problem had been remedied by changes to schedules, pilot training, and signs. There had been no SIMOPS incidents since 1991 and SIMOPS was not used for overseas airlines, Mr Brooksbank said. A year ago, a new CAA flight management plan for the airport which would have done away with SIMOPS was abandoned after intensive lobbying. Jumoo ta By TONY HEWETT As heads of two of Sydney's leading boys' schools, they were more often rivals. But Anthony James Morell Rae and Father Greg O'Kelly shared many a cause, including their suspicion of the former NSW Minister for Education, Dr Terry Metherell.

This week, they shared another milestone. Mr Tony Rae is retiring after 21 years as headmaster of Newington College, at Stanmore, while Father O'Kelly retires after 12 years as headmaster of St Ignatius' College, Riverview. At a tribute held for Mr Rae at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre on Monday night, there were valedictories from a Newington old boy, the former Wallaby captain Nick Farr-Jones, the executive director of the NSW Association of Independent Schools, Mr Terry Chapman, and Dr Ruth Shatford, national chairwoman of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools in Australia. Mr Rae was formerly the chairman of the Headmasters' Conference of Australia while Father O'Kelly was chairman of the NSW chapter of the conference and the first Catholic chairman of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. Mr Rae, 65, AM, told the Herald before he stood on the podium during Monday night's tribute: "There's been a very perceptible freeing up of education over the last 20 years.

"I think schools are kinder places than they ever used to be. They're certainly much more civilised places and they cater for a vastly greater breadth of interest than they would have done 20 years back." Newington, a Uniting Church school, had long been regarded as an institution of learning which required of its students excellence in sport and traditional academic subjects, and Mr Rae encountered resistance when he began broadening the school's curriculum and encouraging students to be involved in the arts. Choosing his words carefully, Mr Rae, who came to the school in 1972 from Albury Grammar (now Scots), said: "The hardest thing I've encountered is gaining community acceptance and sup- have gained from the efforts to greatly expand its curriculum and pastoral base. His approach to guiding the students through their school life has involved trying to provide them with a clear profile of the Catholic teachings which he feels have much to offer. Father O'Kelly's constant use of the Church's "men for others" and "gifted for what and whom" philosophy says much about the school's emphasis on instilling in students that they have an obligation to assist the community, here and elsewhere.

A number of former St Ignatius boys have become priests or joined organisations working in the developing world. But in line with the wider difficulties being faced by the Catholic Church in the 1990s as it faces questions about the contemporary relevance of some of its fundamental teachings, Father O'Kelly and the school have faced powerful external forces. "Any religious school has to come to terms with religious relativism and indifference," he said. "You have to make your meaning relevant, that's true. "We are fighting the having society rather than the being society.

Schools have to compete with the media and others for value formations." Both men recall the period during which Dr Metherell was NSW Minister for Education as a turbulent time for independent schools. Father O'Kelly said he was often concerned during this time that the values espoused by independent schools were not given enough credit, that Dr Metherell alienated a lot of good will among the heads of private schools. Mr Rae recalled: "Many of the Metherell reforms were so obviously good but sold so obviously badly. Educational society was greatly fragmented by his inability to explain the things he was aiming to do." Mr Rae, who has recently been appointed to the NSW Board of Studies, will be replaced by Mr Michael Smee, headmaster of Adelaide's Pulteney Grammar School. Father O'Kelly will be succeeded by Father Christopher Gleeson, formerly headmaster of Xavier College in Melbourne.

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