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It was almost all over: the destruction of China Airlines flight 120
There is a tangible sense of relief when a large passenger aircraft touches down. The sound of the landing gear reacquainting itself with the...
Without warning: the startle factor
‘#$@! we’re going to crash! This can’t be true! But what’s happening?’ were the last words from pilot David Robert on board Air France...
Small but dangerous …
Wasps are a hazard to any aircraft, as recent events show.
Consider the humble wasp. When it builds its nest in the pitot tube of...
Winging it – taxiing in the dark
This story was first published in 2015.
How’s your situational awareness?
Loss of situational awareness led the crew of a British Airways Boeing 747-400 to hit...
Close scrapes: gear-up embarrassments that could have been nasty
Wheels-up landings continue to make headlines in safety bulletins as pilots continue to discover the limits of human performance the hard way.
The latest investigation...
Australia’s civil aviation in 1950
How’s this for flashback Friday?
As part of researching a story on the evolution of air traffic control featuring in the upcoming May/June edition of...
No second chances
Why gliding experience makes us safer pilots. Kreisha Ballantyne experiences the seven valuable skills advanced by gliding.
Clunk! That’s both the sound of the tug rope...
The aerodiesels are coming
Flight Safety Australia contributor, Thomas P. Turner, examines aerodiesels and their compelling economic and safety advantages
The aerodiesels are coming. They burn the same fuel...
100 things that make safer skies: 81-90
Search and rescue
Search and rescue has come a long way since the 1929 ‘Coffee Royal’ incident, where two of Charles Kingsford Smith’s friends died...
100 things that make safer skies: 71-80
QNH/QFE
Quite why the letter Q is used in abbreviations for altimeter settings is a quintessentially curly question. The answer is in the radio Q...
