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Kazakh jet’s wild ride
Details are emerging of an extraordinary and frightening flight by an Embraer ERJ 190 over Portugal last week. The single aisle 97-seat airliner encountered...
It’s always darker on the ground
Close call by Simon Bromiley
I was an occasional jump pilot for a small skydiving operation in Western Australia. It was one of those perfect...
Melbourne VFR lane procedures
Information in this story has been superseded.
It remains here only in the interests of openness.
If you fly VFR around Port Phillip Bay, you...
Blocks and a chain in the sky
The technology behind the cryptocurrency bitcoin is being touted as the solution for managing safety-critical information in aviation. Can this idea fly?
Open any information...
International accidents 1 August–31 August 2018
Date 4 August
Aircraft Junkers Ju-52/3mg4e
Location Piz Segnas, Switzerland
Fatalities 20
Description The aircraft crashed into the western slope of Piz Segnas at an elevation of 2540...
Investigator praises crew in propeller separation
An undetected fatigue crack led to the separation of the right propeller from a Saab 340B over southwestern Sydney in March last year, the...
Growth without discomfort
How do you build your skills as a pilot without putting yourself and others at unnecessary risk? First accept your limits and then train...
Seeing red: putting a stop to runway incursions
Red is a powerful colour. Over the centuries it has been associated with good fortune, passion, violence, defiance, political ideology—and danger.
The colour red is...
NTSB concludes runway near miss investigation
THE US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded its investigation into a literal near miss that could have been the worst aviation disaster...
ATSB finds trim setting led to Essendon crash
A misset rudder trim was behind the crash of a B200 King Air in Essendon in February 2017, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has...
