The ATSB has found that a collision between a freight train and motor car occurred because the flashing lights, bells and boom gates failed to operate as the train approached the level crossing.
The ATSB has found that an undetected flaw, and the subsequent failure of a critical main engine component, led to the bulk carrier Enterprise being disabled in Bass Strait on 10 July 2006 and drifting for nearly three days.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has found that heavy fog and the inappropriate speed of a truck in the conditions were the main contributors to a collision with a freight train at the Lismore Skipton Road level crossing at Lismore, Victoria on 25 May 2006.
ATSB analysis shows that an increase in reported airline accident and incident data since 2001 is mainly due to industry expansion, and the rates of many types of occurrence have fallen.
An ATSB research report released today examines the problem of spatial disorientation.
The ATSB has found that a leakage of dangerous goods on board the Liberian registered container ship Kota Pahlawan, off the coast of Australia, on 16 June 2006, occurred because the dangerous goods were not packaged properly.
The ATSB has found that a TransAdelaide passenger train passed a red stop signal last year, which placed it on a collision course with an interstate passenger train because of a combination of human error and sub-optimal procedures.
Failure to keep a proper lookout, a faulty radio and fatigue
resulted in a collision between two vessels off the coast of
Western Australian on 18 January 2001, according to an
investigation report released by the Australian Transport Safety
Bureau today.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released its final
report after an almost two-year investigation of the systemic
factors behind the groundings of Ansett B767 aircraft.
