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Death in the afternoon
The story of Australia’s first civilian turboprop crash shows how much investigation and analysis have evolved since the 1950s
By Robert Wilson
Three o’clock is either...
Bird on the runway
Managing the ‘unmanageable’
By Margo Marchbank
You’re flying a regular public transport (RPT) aircraft on final approach to a major Australian metropolitan airport when ATC...
Close for comfort
By Des Webster
I was flying a Piper Archer from Richmond to Young in December 2018. Around midday I was approaching Young airport from the...
A picture in your head
By a Flight Safety Australia reader
One pilot’s apparent distraction with cockpit technology led to a loss of situational awareness in the circuit area, narrowly...
Remembering Senja Robey
Senja Robey, an Australian aviation icon, professional pilot and extraordinary instructor, died recently, aged 93.
She had been inducted into the Australian Aviation Hall of...
Nothing on the clock
By Warren Scanlon
This pilot had to make quick decisions after the airspeed indicator failed
Shortly after obtaining my private pilots’ licence, I hired a Warrior...
Cleaning hot spots
If you’re lucky enough to still be flying, safety should be your top priority during the pandemic.
Aircraft cleanliness is now more important than ever...
One fell swoop: the Canberra Hudson disaster
With the help of a historian who researched the subject over four decades, and a former politician turned award-winning writer, Flight Safety Australia re-examines...
Too tired to back off
By Adrian Park
A captain overwhelmed by lack of sleep loses control of his aircraft
On a late August afternoon in 1993, an approach to Runway...
The biggest myth in general aviation
By Nick Stobie
Maintenance releases are a seemingly simple document, but does an endorsed defect automatically ground an aircraft?
The underlying principle behind the maintenance release...
