Media statements

Failure to keep a proper lookout by either vessel has been
identified as the immediate cause of the ninth collision in five
years between a fishing vessel and a ship off the Australian
coast.

The ATSB investigation Preliminary Report into the accident in
which six lives were lost when a privately operated Piper Cheyenne
aircraft crashed near Benalla, Victoria, on 28 July 2004, found
that the aircraft was off course for a substantial period.

A media briefing on the circumstances of the 8 September 2004,
Robinson R44 Helicopter, VH-JWX near Roma, Queensland will be held
in the Roma airport car park, outside the terminal at 6.00pm today,
10 September 2004.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is seeking assistance from the public to locate a door that fell from an aircraft at about 0715 EST Tuesday 7 September 2004.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has found that fatigue cracking in the blade slots of a high-pressure turbine disk led directly to the uncontained failure of the left engine of a Boeing 767 aircraft that occurred near Brisbane on 8 December 2002.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that the door that fell from a Raytheon Beechcraft King Air B300 aircraft on Tuesday 7 September 2004 has been located.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has been advised that two people were fatally injured in a Robinson R44 helicopter crash which occurred at about 6.30pm on 8 September 2004.

The accident occurred some 30NM, West South West of Roma, Queensland.

After allowing for activity levels, ATSB research indicates that
Robinson R22 helicopters have a similar safety profile to other
comparable helicopters.

The ATSB's aviation safety survey of commercial pilots, Common
Flying Errors, has revealed that, violations of standard operating
procedures were more prevalent in general aviation and were
involved in 11.8% of all events.