There are significant question marks over the use of old and scary jets by charter airline Oz Jet, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Qantas gives new meaning to “bracket creep”
After giving 84 passengers a new meaning to the term “bracket creep”, exclusive images of the damage have fallen from a passing jet in front of Crikey Towers, writes Ben Sandilands.
QF2 power failure “less serious than first reported”. Really?
The once independent and fearless Australian Transport Safety Bureau has wimped its QF2 investigation, writes Ben Sandilands.
Qantas Boeing ‘wrinkled’ in hard landing in Darwin
Qantas is in damage control this morning trying to hide a Qantaslink Boeing 717 that was so severely damaged in a hard landing at Darwin last Thursday that it may be a write-off, writes Ben Sandilands.
Thai Air dive highlights the need for eyes in the tower
The merits of having manned control towers at the country’s mainline airports is illustrated in a preliminary report by the ATSB into an incident near Melbourne on 4 November last year, writes Ben Sandilands.
Cracks appear in Qantas truth shield?
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating multiple power failures in the QF2 incident at Bangkok not the single failure which Qantas said was caused by water flowing from a blocked galley drain through a cracked drip shield over the aircraft equivalent of a junction box, writes Ben Sandilands.
QF2 explanations way too cute
There is a strong buzz in Seattle and among sceptical pilots closer to home that something is too cute by far with the explanations as to why QF2 lost its main electrical system on approach to Bangkok last Monday, writes Ben Sandilands.
Air safety changes slipped in under caretaker cover
By complete coincidence or calculated timing, a lot is happening to air safety standards during the “caretaker mode” of government in the run-up to the election, writes Ben Sandilands.
Jetstar at Tulla, TAM at Sao Paulo. Spot the difference
An international A320 captain who has reviewed the preliminary Australian Transport Safety Bureau report into the botched Jetstar aborted landing at Melbourne Airport in July says there is one element in common with the disaster the same month when TAM crashed the same type of jet into a building after failing to stop on the runway at Sao Paulo Airport.
Fog continues to obscure Jetstar’s near miss
Fog continues to shroud the circumstances in which a Jetstar A320 narrowly missed hitting the ground during an aborted approach to Melbourne Airport on July 21, 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.
Jetstar near miss gets an independent inquiry … finally
The Phuket crash follows closely on the belated decision to hold an Australian inquiry into a bad weather incident involving a Jetstar flight that had a much happier ending.
Where is the inquiry into Jetstar’s aborted landing?
Jetstar’s explanations of how one of its jets came to within 20 feet of the ground during an aborted landing at Melbourne is in some doubt, writes Ben Sandilands.
CASA & Vaile let Jetstar probe Jetstar near miss
Only today will a full dossier on the latest Jetstar incident be delivered to the independent accident and incident investigator, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
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.
