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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...
Unclear and present danger
In this incident, ATC miscommunication and broader organisational factors almost led to the loss of 353 lives.
By Margo Marchbank
On 16 December 2016, EVA...
Don’t push it, don’t go
VFR pilots should make early decisions to avoid the danger of unintentionally flying into cloud.
A total of 101 occurrences of VFR pilots inadvertently flying...
Drones—what’s next?
It is the year 2030 at a busy coastal international airport. From the top of the terminal building, commuter drones taxi incoming passengers to...
Minutes to midnight
Behind what appeared to be an open-and-shut case of human error was a set trap of human and technical factors that was ready to...
Just a little bit over
by Nick Stobie
Almost all Australians are familiar with the Transport Accident Commission’s campaigns against drink driving. They’re prolific, confronting and by many metrics very...
Any one of us
by Thomas P. Turner
I was in the right front seat of a Cessna twin en route from Cowra to Archerfield airport near Brisbane. After...
Reprise: Night of the Comet
The first edition of Aviation Safety Digest in 1953 reported on the runway overrun of a de Havilland Comet 1 in Rome, the previous...
