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…
A large crack across the width of a Robinson Helicopter Company R22 helicopter’s main rotor blade demonstrates that unexpected fatigue cracking can occur on critical flight components, and…
A turboprop airliner’s automatic ignition systems performed as designed, successfully relighting the aircraft’s engines after they separately flamed out in heavy rainfall when the aircraft…
The derailment of five freight train wagons highlights the importance of robust network rules that provide guidance for degraded condition operations, an ATSB investigation found.…
