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Learn from the mistakes of others by reading first-person accounts of mishaps, bad situations and close calls.

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A small aeroplane is flying against a colourful sky at sunset with scattered clouds

Long day’s journey into night VFR

Flight Safety Australia reader - Oct 6, 2026
A helicopter flying through the sky, with "?!" superimposed over it

Fancy meeting you here

Make yourself heard

The shadow of an aeroplane over whispy cloud

The silence over Kingaroy

An oncoming aeroplane with blue sky behind it

Was I the villain?

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 30, 2026 0
An aeroplane spraying a field, with an airspace map superimposed over the sky behind it

Mix-up in the salad bowl

Flight Safety Australia reader - May 20, 2026 0
A cockpit with gauges and a GPS.

Perfectly gauged response

Flight Safety Australia reader - Apr 9, 2026 0

Believe it can happen

Flight Safety Australia reader - Mar 4, 2026 0

Don’t stop now!

Flight Safety Australia reader - Feb 11, 2026 0

Tanks for nothing

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jan 31, 2026 0

And then I got high

Flight Safety Australia reader - Dec 6, 2025 0

The night I went over the edge

Flight Safety Australia reader - Nov 24, 2025 0

Fast-thinking fledging

Flight Safety Australia reader - Nov 3, 2025 0
Illustration of hands with puppet strings controlling a plane

Blundering through the authority gap

Flight Safety Australia reader - Oct 8, 2025 1
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