On 7 September 2016, an Emirates Boeing 777-31HER aircraft, registered A6-EGA, was operating a scheduled passenger flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Brisbane, Queensland. On board were 22…
On 27 September 2016, a Pulse Aerospace Vapor 55 remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), was operating a test flight at Lighthouse Beach, Ballina, New South Wales.
The RPA tracked according to manual inputs…
The report, which provides aviation birdstrike and animal strike occurrence data over ten years, shows that there were 1,977 birdstrikes and 53 ground-based animal strikes in 2015. Most of these…
On 19 August 2016, a JetGo Australia Embraer EMB-135LR, registered VH-JTG, operated scheduled passenger flight JG65 from Tamworth, New South Wales, to Brisbane, Queensland. At 2104 Eastern Standard…
The Group of Chief Pilots from the majority of Australia’s high capacity carriers meet on a regular basis to discuss safety-related issues. (High capacity aircraft are those certificated as having a…
This follows the Queensland Government passing legislation that will see the ATSB investigating accidents and incidents on Queensland’s metropolitan and regional passenger, and freight rail networks…
On 11 November 2016, a Cessna 208B aircraft was on a re-familiarisation training flight with an instructor and trainee pilot on-board.
After take-off, at an altitude of about 500 ft, the instructor…
The crew’s response ultimately ensured the safe landing, taxiing and subsequent evacuation of 97 passengers, three cabin crew and two flight crew on a Newman to Perth flight on 23 September 2016.…
Effective use of Crew Resource Management procedures by a Fairchild SA227 flight crew helped them safely deliver 13 passengers from Armidale, NSW, to Brisbane, Queensland, after a mid-flight…
The ATSB’s report Aviation occurrence statistics 2006 to 2015 found that commercial air transport in 2015 had one fatality from nine accidents. General aviation had 12 fatalities from 130 accidents…
