The Milne Bay crash that killed three Australians and a New Zealander in PNG on Tuesday has also exposed serious concerns about CASA’s handling of Trans Air’s operations.
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Joining the dots on another PNG air disaster
The fatal crash of a small jet on a Milne Bay airstrip in PNG yesterday afternoon is believed to have killed Les Wright, a pilot and aviation entrepreneur.
Jetstar escapes prosecution
Why is Jetstar untouchable when it breaks the law? It failed to notify the ATSB of a reportable air safety incident, yet it’s escaped prosecution. Where is the integrity and consistency of the ATSB?
Another Cessna Caravan crashes as CASA stalls
Another Cessna 208 “Caravan” has crashed within days of CASA disagreeing with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau over the need to warn pilots over the possibility of the aircraft’s single engine giving out in mid air, writes Ben Sandilands.
Are we headed for a major airline crash in Australia?
The increased frequency of serious incidents makes this a legitimate question. There has never been such a proliferation of “near things” in Australian aviation, writes Ben Sandilands.
Senate questions over CASA crash and burn
There is a very bad smell hanging over conduct of CASA in relation to safety oversight of Transair, the now defunct remote community airline that killed 15 people in the Lockhart River crash of 7 May 2005, writes Ben Sandilands.
CASA couldn’t stop Transair, so what good are they?
It would have been appropriate for air sickness bags to have been handed out to the relatives of those killed in the Lockhart River air crash when Queensland coroner Michael Barnes reported his finding on the disaster on Friday afternoon.
Flight Simulators needed for rural air safety
A scary incident at the Jundee mine in WA last month has added a lack of pilot training flight simulators to the failings of safety infrastructure in rural and resource industry air services.
CASA calls for the cone of silence
CASA may be incapable of the safety oversight of airlines as small as Transair (which killed 15 people near Lockhart River in 2005) but it is getting big on secrecy.
Cruising at altitude: the state of bliss approach to Australian jet safety
Sharp words are being exchanged in Singapore between a senior “airworthiness official” from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the Singapore Airlines Engineering Company that comprehensively botched the servicing of a Qantas 747-400 last year.
