The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has confirmed that all 13 people aboard an Airlines PNG Twin Otter, including 9 Australians, were killed when it crashed yesterday morning north of Isurava village in mountain forest terrain off to one side of the Kokoda track.
The wreckage of the small turbo prop aircraft was not located with [...]
Tag Archives: air accidents
No survivors at crash site near the Kokoda Track
August 12, 2009 – 7:24 am
AF447 mid-air breakup evidence raises new discussions about the last signals sent to Paris
June 3, 2009 – 6:26 pm
There is what could be described as technically informed speculation amongst airline professionals in Australia and abroad that AF447 broke apart in flight at or near 35,000 feet and fell into the mid Atlantic in two main parts.
The primary evidence supporting this view is the congregation of the floating debris found in the last day [...]
The Air France mid Atlantic mystery will be hard to unravel
June 1, 2009 – 11:14 pm
The search zone for the missing Air France A330-200 is now in darkness. The airline has ‘lost hope’ for the 228 people on board AF 447, and investigators are looking for clues in a set of automated status messages that indicated a bewildering flurry of electrical systems faults that are the last information received [...]
How Emirates flight EK 407 struck it lucky three times leaving Melbourne and no-one died
April 30, 2009 – 4:13 pm
This was the nearest thing Australia has ever had to a fully loaded jet airliner disaster in which the aircraft was damaged yet no-one was killed or injured.
The timelines and graphics in the ATSB preliminary factual report show that Emirates flight EK 407 and the 275 people on board were seconds and centimetres from a [...]
Emirates flight EK 407 and the need for airlines to be accountable for their accidents
April 2, 2009 – 8:31 am
When one of your jets with 225 passengers on board bashes its way off the end of the runway at Melbourne Airport and collects an ILS antenna which is 150 cms tall with its tail some sort of detailed explanation to the public must be made.
Yet according to the foreign media all that has been [...]
Emirates flight EK 407 was the most dangerous non fatal accident to a jet airliner in Australia
March 23, 2009 – 2:42 pm
ATSB air accident investigators could know as soon as this afternoon what sort of incident they are dealing with after an Emirates A345 with more than 230 people on board was severely damaged on taking off from Melbourne Airport on Friday night.
Was it badly flown? Did one or more cargo containers break loose during the [...]
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