By Claudia Poposki and Tom Place For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 10:36 BST, 30 June 2019 | Updated: 10:37 BST, 30 June 2019
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Regional Express (REX) has hit back at 'wild accusations' the airline has a poor safety culture.
The response comes after the Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) submitted a report to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) which claimed staff felt intimidated into not reporting defects, according to Nine.
The 17-page document alleged a 'culture of fear' within the airline.
ALAEA asked the safety authority to remove REX's capacity to service its own aircraft, a move that would effectively ground the entire fleet.
The regional airline wrote in response to claims which they said had been raised previously by a 'disgruntled engineer and his union' to the Fair Work Commission and to CASA.
'Realising that these baseless accusations are not getting any traction, some are now taking the despicable and cowardly approach of launching anonymous malicious attacks on
