Tag Archives: Ansett-ANA

The Airbus debut that made headlines for just over a day

Forty years ago today the agreement that launched the Airbus A300 was signed at the 1969 Paris Air Show.
Coming during massive focus on the approaching Apollo 11 moon mission, and one year after France and West Germany were adjusting to the aftermath of the student riots the concept of a pan European aerospace entity [...]

Lessons Learned at terrible cost

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 [...]