As an operationally independent body within the Australian Government Department of Transport and Regional Services, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is Australia's prime agency for Transport Safety Investigations.
An execution error by the helmsman of a ship led to a ship running aground in Sydney Harbour.
The ATSB's final investigation report into the Piper Aztec accident which killed a family of five near Mareeba, Queensland on 1 October 2003, has found that the pilot was probably incapacitated as a result of a cardiac event.
A media conference discussing the progress of the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fatal Metroliner aircraft accident near Lockhart River on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland on 7 May 2005 was held today, Thursday 12 May 2005.
A media conference discussing the progress of the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Piper Navajo fatal accident on 31 October 2006 will be held today, Wednesday 1 November 2006
An ATSB report has found that a recent airspace incident was both an 'airprox' and a 'serious incident' and that a Brasilia and a Partenavia aircraft passed about 40 m horizontally at the same altitude from each other.
A media conference discussing the progress of the investigation
into the circumstances surrounding the fatal Citabria aircraft
accident near the town of Stonefield in South Australia on Sunday
15 May 2005 will be held today, Monday 16 May
2005.
A media conference discussing the factual information contained
in the preliminary report into the circumstances surrounding the
fatal aircraft accident near Lockhart River on 7 May 2005 will be
held today, Friday 3 June 2005.
A media conference discussing the progress of the investigation
into the circumstances surrounding the fatal Metroliner aircraft
accident near Lockhart River on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland on
7 May 2005 was held today, Thursday 12 May 2005.
A media conference discussing the factual information contained in the interim report into the circumstances surrounding the fatal aircraft accident near Lockhart River on 7 May 2005 will be held on, Friday 16 December 2005.
