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 about [...]
Tag Archives: air safety
Pel-Air implicates itself deeper and deeper over ditching
November 21, 2009 – 8:15 am
‘Fly by Wire’ the book, and an incredible video
November 13, 2009 – 10:55 am
The six minute flight then glide of US Airways flight Cactus 1549 from La Guardia airport to splashdown in the Hudson River on January 15 this year was a rare and spectacular good news story when it comes to air crashes.
The release this week of Fly by Wire, the Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on [...]
A reminder of a growing problem
November 10, 2009 – 9:46 am
This photo illustrates a problem that is likely to affect Australian carriers and their normal sized passengers as the obesity epidemic spreads .
It was taken last month by a flight attendant in the US on her iPhone. She noticed the situation when the dispatch agent was distracted at the front of the cabin trying to [...]
Will air safety in Australia be reformed promptly, or after a disaster?
November 3, 2009 – 5:11 pm
Two safety critical issues arose today, in Crikey reports about a Qantas 767 descending too low with its wheels up as it approached Sydney last Monday, and about the informal relationship between Qantas and CASA and shoddy foreign maintenance.
They raise again the question as to whether the public administration of air safety in Australia is [...]
ATSB probes Qantas (767) and Jetstar (A330) serious incidents
November 2, 2009 – 7:16 pm
Two recent incidents officially rated as serious involving Jetstar and Qantas flights are under investigation by the ATSB.
The Jetstar incident, on October 28, may have involved an iced up pitot or external speed measuring device on an A330 which was flying from Tokyo to the Gold Coast.
The flight experienced an involuntarily autopilot disconnection and [...]
CASA, Qantas and unanswered safety allegations
October 31, 2009 – 10:08 am
In the spirit of brave rather than ‘cowardly’ criticism, when will CASA deal with a series of allegations about unsafe practices by Qantas last year raised by the licensed engineers union?
Not deal with, as in, have a spokesman dismiss them as immaterial or industrially motivated.
But deal with, as in investigate and publish detailed findings, and [...]
Plain talking about CASA and the media
October 30, 2009 – 10:36 am
The new CEO of CASA, John McCormick, made some comments about its critics at the conclusion of a Senate Estimates Committee hearing on October 20.
The white or final Hansard record is less entertaining than accounts of the pink or first draft Hansard, but let’s look at the former, since it constitutes the public record.
Before [...]
Talking points: Jetstar fire, PC pilots grounded & 787 Dreamliner wing fixture latest
October 28, 2009 – 9:49 am
The Jetstar engine fire at Newcastle Airport last night wasn’t an emergency evacuation using slides. Just a bolt for the front and rear stairs after a ground engineer told the pilots he had seen a three second flash of flame from one of the A320’s engines after it came to a standstill at the terminal [...]
The wheel of fortune, as played by Virgin Blue and the engineers union
October 21, 2009 – 3:36 pm
The wheel that did, didn’t, did, didn’t disintegrate on a Virgin Blue Boeing 737-800 on landing at Melbourne yesterday morning is the stage prop for a conflict over union power, engineering skills and the influence of corporate culture on safety issues.
A detailed report was carried by Crikey today. That report confirmed that the wheel did [...]
Dead reckoning: US lawyer sues Airbus and umpteen other parties over Air France disaster
October 20, 2009 – 1:35 pm
A US lawyer is suing everyone who made anything that was part of the Air France Airbus A330-200, flight AF447 that crashed into the mid Atlantic on June 1 and killed all 228 people on board.
The responses of the parties to the US action quoted in the Reuters report need to be considered carefully. [...]
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