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 crashes
No survivors at crash site near the Kokoda Track
August 12, 2009 – 7:24 am
Airbusophobia versus reality plus a few things to keep worrying about
July 1, 2009 – 9:01 pm
There is no possible connection between the crash of an the Yemenia Airbus A310 a day ago and the 1 June crash of an AirFrance A330-200 in the mid Atlantic with the loss of 228 lives.
But that won’t stop the Airbusophobia which seems to rule the air waves at the moment. They were both [...]
AF447’s last messages point to the ‘dragons’ that can destroy a jet
June 5, 2009 – 1:32 pm
For an air crash in which the ‘black boxes’ or any trace of the 228 victims may never be recovered, much has been learned about what happened to AF447 the Air France A330-200 jet that crashed in the mid-Atlantic early on 1 June.
This is because of a series of automated status messages relayed via satellite [...]
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 [...]
Lessons Learned at terrible cost
October 17, 2008 – 12:03 pm
The US Federal Aviation Administration or FAA has put up a new resource on Lessons Learned from major crashes.
So far there are 11 accidents on the website with plans to expand it to 40. With several of them outside the US already on the list it is possible that an Australian accident that changed air [...]
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