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Close calls

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

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Properly clear of the prop?

staff writers - Mar 28, 2014

Three-ring mistake

Acid trip

image: © Nicholas Fisher | ww.thefishercollective.com

Driven to distraction!

Montage of several images overlayed to create an abstract image. Image includes a small aircraft, an aerial view of a desert landscape and some swiss cheese.

Alice, through the looking glass

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jul 11, 2023 1
A helicopter flying through the sky, with "?!" superimposed over it

Fancy meeting you here

Flight Safety Australia reader - Sep 1, 2026 0

Green walls of Salamanca

Flight Safety Australia reader - Apr 17, 2019 0
An unsealed runway surrounded by bushland. A blue sky with scattered above.

Dog legs and goat tracks

Flight Safety Australia reader - Sep 21, 2023 0
Abstract image of aircraft flying in the sky and a seatbelt

Belting along

Flight Safety Australia reader - Dec 5, 2022 1
Image of a small aircraft flying dangerously close outside the cockpit window of another plane

It could all have ended then

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jul 7, 2025 0
Image of a glider.

Decision or design

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 14, 2023 0
image of a pilot and the flight deck

Twice befuddled

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 23, 2025 1

They don’t make them like they used to

Flight Safety Australia reader - Dec 12, 2024 0
aerial image of Canberra

Cascade of confusion

Flight Safety Australia reader - Jun 16, 2025 0
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