Skip to content

Safety

NY plane crash: Don’t study the safety card

Crikey / Friday, 16 January 2009

There is something about single aisle jets like the one that splashed down on New York’s Hudson River today that you are never told in safety briefings, writes Ben Sandilands.

Out of control: The air traffic staffing crisis

Crikey / Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Months after airliners began to lose a reliable air traffic control system in Australia, the air safety regulator has done nothing to enforce rules about staffing levels, writes Ben Sandilands.