Qantas and safety investigator the ATSB have disagreed over an incident in which a Qantas 767 Cityflyer descended to 500 feet radio altitude with its wheels still up a mere 1500 metres north of Sydney Airport.
Air safety investigation
Bid to hush-up report on serious near miss between jets
There is a clear inference of conspiracy between the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and the federal government to hush-up a serious near miss between airliners in Australian airspace.
Qantas chief shaky at Senate inquiry
After droning on for minutes about how Qantas’s safety “is our number one concern”, its CEO Alan Joyce was rattled before a Senate inquiry into pilot and airline training this morning.
The ‘extraordinary evidence’ in Jetstar near-miss probe
The pilot union AIPA has called on the federal government to pursue an apparent attempt to interfere with the evidence two Jetstar pilots were giving about a near crash.
Oz Jet’s old and scary jets come under question
There are significant question marks over the use of old and scary jets by charter airline Oz Jet, writes Ben Sandilands.
Qantas flight almost runs out of fuel, pilot fatigue a factor
An air safety investigation into a Qantas flight that had a “fuel event” while flying from Perth to Sydney on 11 August is looking closely at pilot fatigue as a factor, writes Ben Sandilands.
