Aviation

The ATSB supports safety recommendations the SA Coroner has made today that reinforce those by the ATSB, but disagrees with some of the Coroner's key conclusions.

Speech delivered to Safeskies 07 Conference in Canberra, ACT on The ATSB perspective on Safety Management Systems in Australia by Mr Kym Bills, Executive Director, Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

On 1 March 2003, the Government of Timor Leste released its Preliminary Report into the fatal aircraft accident near Baucau on 31 January 2003.

A media conference discussing the circumstances of the Bell 206B Jetranger Helicopter that crashed while undertaking water bombing operations during the Canberra Bush Fires of January 2003 will be held at 11.00 am today.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau will be conducting a media interview on the fatal aircraft accident at Bankstown Airport involving a Piper Seneca, VH-CTT.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's supplementary investigation report into the fatal accident involving Whyalla Airlines Piper Chieftain registration VH-MZK on 31 May 2000 is expected to be tabled in the Senate before Question Time today.

An ATSB research report released today examines the problem of spatial disorientation.

The Executive Director of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has today authorised the re-opening of the investigation into the crash of Whyalla Airlines VH-MZK.

The ATSB's final investigation report into an aircraft accident near Willowbank in Queensland last year, resulting in five deceased persons and two seriously injured survivors, found that the aircraft's performance prior to impacting a large tree and crashing into a dam was consistent with an eng