The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s Chief Commissioner, Greg Hood, has been reappointed as the chair of the International Transportation Safety Association (ITSA) for a second 12-month…
A Robinson R22 helicopter collided with terrain when it likely encountered a downdraft with insufficient height to recover while unnecessarily flying at low level through the Northern…
The collision with rising terrain of an FU24 Stallion aerial application aircraft highlights the importance of pre-flight planning of application runs to account for nearby terrain, an ATSB…
The ATSB is advising Pilatus PC-12 operators to review their pitch trim system training and checking processes to ensure pilots are adequately prepared to manage a trim…
The deployment of an emergency exit’s ditching dam in flight highlights to flight crews that not every system in an aircraft is controllable or monitored, an ATSB investigation reinforces.…
The propellers of a Beech King Air operating a charter flight with one pilot and seven passengers on-board contacted the runway during an attempted landing at Mount Gambier Airport when the…
The ATSB has published a statistical report of aerial firefighting accident and incident occurrence data spanning a near 20-year period, in response to a request for information from the…
The origin of a white, rubbery contaminant discovered in Jet A1 fuel drums was determined to be sealant used on drum lids and bases, an ATSB investigation has found.
In September of…
Improper stowage of helicopter winch hook assemblies can lead to excessive movement and accelerated wear of the cable, which if undetected, can lead to catastrophic failure of the winch cable…
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released the preliminary report from its ongoing investigation into the mid-air collision involving a Piper Seminole and a Beech Travel Air aircraft…
