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Photograph of the aircraft after the collision with terrain in an upright position with the tail separated.
Low level training flight accident
Aerial map showing a helicopter flight path over mountainous terrain with annotated key points related to a hiker incident. Labels indicate direction of travel, hiker sighting, entry track, rotor strike location, and exit track, with shaded flight corridor and scale bar for distance reference.
AW139 main rotor struck tree positioned in pilot’s blind spot
A photograph of the antenna base secured to the top of VH-EEL after the antenna separated from the aircraft.
King Air damaged after antenna detached in flight
VH-8HR floating on the ocean with emergency pop-out floats inflated.
R44 helicopter power loss and ditching
An aerial firefighting helicopter dropping water on a bushfire.
Report identifies key themes from aerial firefighting survey
View of the runway 09 lighting that was available to the flight crew when lined up with the right edge of the runway. Source: Mildura Airport, annotated by the ATSB
Dash 8 lined up on runway edge lighting
The incident aircraft’s throttle body lever arm compared to the manufacturer’s exemplar.
Airvan throttle linkage disconnection
HUET encouraged for regular overwater passengers
VH-LYD accident site
Flights after last light normalised, R22 accident investigation finds
Helitak 368’s flight path (in red) and Bomber 359’s flight path (in blue).
Misunderstanding led to fireground loss of separation
Training aided decisive response to take-off engine failure
Satellite cloud imagery at 1000 EST (14 minutes after the accident).
Preliminary report into R44 accident near Cataract National Park
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