November 30, 2009 – 8:28 pm
It seems like the ideologues and realists are going to be forced together to find a 2nd Sydney Airport. The announcement this afternoon that the Aviation White Paper will be released on December 16 comes with reference to a joint Federal/NSW study to short list sites. But the Feds want it to be outside the [...]
November 30, 2009 – 7:08 pm
The Mt Erebus disaster of November 28, 1979 is a matter of personal sadness 30 years on, and this post was held back for that reason rather than publish it on the anniversary. Today I pulled out a clipping of a story of mine the Sydney Morning Herald published on June 26 or June 20, [...]
November 27, 2009 – 9:04 am
The history of ‘things’, such as a wharf, or a railway station, is a useful way of linking the everyday experiences of generations of Australians to our times. Ginette Snow’s book, Canberra Airport, a pictorial history, is a part of this vital genre, and a ‘must have’ for collectors of images and narratives of the [...]
November 26, 2009 – 8:30 pm
Virgin Blue is making money this financial year, but trying to keep a lid on major pending announcements about its brand and new cabin arrangements. Those were the two key messages from today’s annual general meeting. Reports also indicate the V Australia has emerged from the storm clouds of an inauspicious entry into the Australia-US [...]
November 23, 2009 – 6:57 pm
Special safety audit after Norfolk ditching (CASA statement) A special audit of two air operators is being carried out by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority following the ocean ditching of a Westwind jet near Norfolk Island last week. CASA is auditing elements of the operator of the aircraft, Pel-Air Aviation, as well as Regional Express [...]
November 23, 2009 – 5:59 pm
A ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ comparison of Richmond as a second jet airport for Sydney is academic since it is going to happen, and probably soon. That is why it is back in the news today. It is part of the softening up process for its announcement in the near future, possibly before Christmas. Otherwise, only [...]
November 21, 2009 – 8:15 am
It seems that every time the senior management of Pel-Air open their mouths in public they take on more water. In today’s Australian, Jim Davis, the managing director of REX, the regional airline that owns Pel-Air follows up the amazing admissions made earlier this week by Pel-Air chairman and former federal Transport Minister, John Sharp [...]
By Ben Sandilands
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Tagged air accident, air crash, air safety, ATSB, CareFlight, CASA, Jim Davis, John Sharp, medivac flight, Pel-Air, REX
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November 19, 2009 – 8:34 pm
(There are updates from CASA and the ATSB at the end of this post.) Wednesday night’s ditching of a Pel-Air CareFlight medivac Westwind jet is being turned into a media circus by the airline and some very susceptible reporters. First reported in the Crikey subscriber email today, the incident which left six people, half of [...]
November 19, 2009 – 4:08 pm
Is Tiger inept or conscientiously tricky in trying to get passengers to forfeit a cheap fare and buy a more costly arrangement? This is an email sent to a reader by his daughter about her friend Hannah’s experience with Tiger in Adelaide yesterday. Our reader has also complained about Tiger here in the past. Hi [...]
November 18, 2009 – 5:33 pm
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is now considering the remote possibility that a rogue cosmic ray or solar particle caused a Qantas A330-300 to twice dive out of control over Western Australia on October 7 last year. Startling though this may sound, the second interim report into the accident, in which 12 people were seriously [...]
