Facebook Linkedin Soundcloud X Youtube
  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Airworthiness
  • Drones
  • Close calls
    • Submit your close call
  • Accidents
    • Australian accidents
    • International accidents
  • Quizzes
  • Subscribe
Search
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
Flight Safety Australia
  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • Airworthiness
  • Drones
  • Close calls
    • Submit your close call
  • Accidents
    • Australian accidents
    • International accidents
  • Quizzes
  • Subscribe
Home Close calls

Close calls

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

Random
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random

Unintended touchdown

Flight Safety Australia reader - Mar 14, 2018

Double blind

The day I caught the flying bug

Avocado aviator

Crosswind Chaos

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jan 24, 2019 7

It’s always darker on the ground

Flight Safety Australia reader - Nov 2, 2018 10
Photo of small red and white aircraft flying with land and water in the background

A tumble of numbers

Flight Safety Australia reader - Aug 7, 2023 4

One wrong turn

Flight Safety Australia reader - Apr 9, 2024 0
Aircraft flying over land in the sky

Fear for lunch

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 24, 2022 0

This can’t be the leans, I’m not in cloud!

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 19, 2019 8

Complacency – The sleeping dragon

Flight Safety Australia reader - Nov 21, 2018 12

I learned about flying from that

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 13, 2018 0
Cessna

What’s the circuit height?

Flight Safety Australia reader - Mar 23, 2020 1
aerial image of Canberra

Cascade of confusion

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 16, 2025 0
123...16Page 1 of 16
Win flight planning gear if you subscribe by 10 August. Click here to subscribe.
Never miss and article. Join our mailing list.
ABOUT US
Flight Safety Australia: CASA's flagship aviation safety magazine. Topical, technical, but reader-friendly, articles cover all the key aviation safety issues – safety management systems, maintenance, runway safety, human factors, airspace, training, aviation medicine – and more.
FOLLOW US
Facebook Linkedin Soundcloud X Youtube
  • About us
  • Archives
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy
  • Contact
© Copyright Civil Aviation Safety Authority Australia

Subscribe

Flight Safety Australia - Australian Government - Civil Aviation Safety Authority

Find out when new content is published online. Don't miss out - sign up today.

Your details

Subscription options

Select the audience segments below that you would like to receive updates for:

Topics of interest

Select the topics of interest below that you would like to receive updates for:

Select the frequency at which you would like to receive updates: *