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state again that, in the circumstances, and keeping safety in mind, you should not have been allowed to fly from that time. Further, you should not have been allowed to fly again, until there was unequivocal evidence that you had completed a successful course of treatment. Taking
all of the above into consideration, I believe there is strong clinical evidence that you developed OCD in 1978 at the time when you felt a compulsion to crash your car. The second and more significant episode of OCD occurred on 29 August 1979, with a similar episode on 30 August 1979, but against a background of slowly increasing phobic anxiety. Your then recent onset of OCD raises significant safety issues. Even assuming a less stringent concern about safety matters at the time, you should have been stood down from flying. Further, you should have not been allowed to return to your aviation career until safety could be guaranteed.
It remains my opinion that you developed a significant disability in 1979 which was not adequately addressed by Qantas, particularly in terms of removing you from flying, and in the organising of best available treatment, and carrying out a very careful post treatment assessment to ensure that you were fit to fly and that you would not place passengers and the general public at risk.