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WA 737 firebomber accident
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is launching a transport safety investigation into an accident involving a 737 large air tanker (firebomber aircraft) in the Fitzgerald River National Park south of Ravensthorpe, WA on Monday afternoon. The ATSB is assembling a team of transport safety investigators from its Perth and Canberra offices with experience in aircraft operations and maintenance, human factors and data recovery to conduct the evidence collection phase of the investigation. Initially…
Preliminary report details R22 mustering helicopter accident
Key points Robinson R22 had returned to camp at end of day’s mustering operations, before engine was restarted; Wreckage discovered the next day, with pilot found to be fatally…
Training improved after passenger train overspeed incident
Key points A new system for use by rail safety workers was not supported by an effective training regime which meant that when a Protection Officer used it for the first time to…
Electrical component failure leads to brief flame discharge from liquid hydrogen carrier’s gas combustion unit vent stack
Key points Flame was briefly observed propagating from the vent stack of a gas combustion unit on board a liquified hydrogen tanker; Excessive temperatures in unit resulted…
Balloon collision a lesson on decision making
Key points Sightseeing balloons collided near Alice Springs after pilot misjudged speed and direction of the other balloon; Pilot then managed the balloon's descent to avoid a…
Derailment of freight train 82P7 and subsequent collision with coal train 9F02, near Marmor, Queensland, on 29 January 2023
82P7, Freight, Substantial, Moolabin Yard, Queensland, Derailment, Townsville, Queensland, Pacific National, Freight
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9F02, Freight, Substantial, Blackwater coal system, Queensland, Derailment, Callemondah (Gladstone), Queensland, Aurizon, Coal
RO-2023-001
Marmor freight train derailment and collision
Statement can be attributed to ATSB Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has commenced a transport safety investigation into the derailment of a freight train and its subsequent collision with a coal train at Marmor, Queensland, on Sunday evening. The ATSB has deployed a team of transport safety investigators, with experience in train and railway operations and maintenance, from its Brisbane and Canberra offices, to commence the evidence collection phase of this investigation.…
Engine malfunction and forced landing involving Rockwell International 114, 6 km south-west of Swan Hill Airport, Victoria, on 29 November 2022
AB-2022-024
Aircraft loading incident involving a Piper Aircraft Corporation PA-28-161, Bankstown, New South Wales, on 28 September 2022
AB-2022-016
Mid-air collision between hot air balloons, VH-FSR and VH-OOP, 6 km south-east of Alice Springs Airport, Northern Territory, on 18 July 2022
Hale, Northern Territory, Hale, Northern Territory, E-260, E260-403, Balloon, VH-FSR, Part 131 Balloons and hot air airships, Nil, Kavanagh Balloons, RED CENTRE BALLOONING PTY LTD
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Hale, Northern Territory, Hale, Northern Territory, B-400, B400-344, Balloon, VH-OOP, Part 131 Balloons and hot air airships, Nil, Kavanagh Balloons, RED CENTRE BALLOONING PTY LTD
AO-2022-037