Aviation

ATSB data and analysis released today refutes recent claims reported in the media that the commercial aviation fatal accident rate in Australia is increasing and that the number of aviation fatalities involving professional pilots in Australia over the last three years is very high compared with

An Airbus A340 lost directional control while landing on runway 16 Right at Sydney Airport on 1 November 2000 at 1150 hours ESuT.

The ATSB Interim Factual Investigation Report into the Metroliner fatal aircraft accident on 7 May 2005 near Lockhart River has found that if the ground proximity warning system functioned as designed, the crew should have received a number of warnings from the system as the aircraft descended be

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Piper Navajo Chieftain four-fatality accident near Condobolin on 2 December 2005.

Four ATSB investigators have been on site near Condobolin since Saturday morning.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating the circumstances surrounding a Virgin Blue Boeing 737 emergency descent incident on 2 December 2005.

The ATSB's final investigation report has found that an Airbus A330 passenger aircraft that landed at Sydney in fog on 6 April last year did so because the adverse weather conditions were unforecast and the flight crew continued to manoeuvre the aircraft for a landing at Sydney past the time they

The ATSB investigation into the fatal Piper Seneca accident on 11 November 2003, at Bankstown Airport has found that the aircraft departed from controlled flight at a height from which recovery was not possible. The reason for the loss of control could not be determined.

The ATSB's Preliminary Aviation Safety Investigation Report into the 7 May 2005 Lockhart River accident in which two pilots and 13 passengers perished has found that the Metroliner had descended about 1000 ft below the minimum obstacle clearance altitude when it collided with terrain.

The ATSB's final report into the terrain proximity caution
incident to the south-south-east of Canberra at 0544 am on 24 July
2004 has found that the flight crew of the Boeing 737 were affected
by fatigue and they misinterpreted the instrument approach chart

The ATSB's preliminary examination of recorders from the fatal Metroliner accident has found good data on the aircraft flight data recorder but not on the cockpit voice recorder.