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In the bleak midwinter
Monarch Airlines flight OB301
Piper PA31-350 Navajo Chieftain
Young, NSW
Friday 11 June 1993
The destruction of a regional airliner 27 years ago revealed widespread shortcomings at the...
Reality bites
Situational awareness, distraction and landing fixation are the themes of three chilling anecdotes. We are all human, so ask yourself: ’would I have done...
IFR operations
Refer to the YSWG ILS-Y 23 approach chart.
1 You are currently tracking inbound on the 080°R WG VOR. Your GPS shows a distance...
The art of organisation
Kreisha Ballantyne makes no secret of the fact that she was an ill-equipped student pilot.
Having no pilots in my family, no technical or mechanical...
Queen of the sky makes graceful exit
A piece of Australian aviation history leaves our shores today, on its way to a Californian aircraft boneyard. It is the last flight of...
Missing the message
How do you find the vital pre-flight information you need when it’s buried deep in a stream of NOTAMs? This frustration, felt by pilots...
Impromptu flight ended in spin
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has published the final chapter in a sad story: the crash of a Russian Yak-9 replica warbird that...
Wireless speaker and a loud crashing sound
From the US comes the latest domestic item to join the list of dangerous foreign object debris (FOD) items. A wireless audio speaker, used...
Cups running over creates hazard
Tea and coffee have joined the list of aviation hazards—after official warnings and even an officially approved countermeasure.
Airbus has developed a cover for switches...
An ill wind: COVID-19 and aviation
Full-stop landing
Suddenly everything stopped. There have never been months like March and April 2020 in the history of aviation. Previous world crises such as...
