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: ATSB
Pel-Air implicates itself deeper and deeper over ditching
November 21, 2009 – 8:15 am
Let’s get real about the Norfolk Island ditching
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 them without [...]
QF72: Did a cosmic ray zap the Airbus?
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 injured [...]
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 [...]
Fines levied against two major US carriers highlight compromised air safety enforcement in Australia
October 15, 2009 – 5:05 pm
Penalties totalling about AUD $10 million filed by the US safety regulator the FAA against United and US Airways overnight are a sharp reminder of how derelict Australian regulators are when it comes to comparable breaches by Qantas and REX.
Neither Qantas nor REX has been prosecuted or fined over gross violations of the safety [...]
The hard facts about the Kokoda crash
September 18, 2009 – 7:15 pm
The stark details in the preliminary factual report in the 11 August crash of a small turboprop carrying Australians to Kokoda for the the start of their planned Kokoda track walk makes no mention of a missed approach to the awkwardly located strip.
The report, issued by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, instead describes the [...]
Inside the wild worst of regional aviation in Australia, as uncovered by the ATSB
July 8, 2009 – 9:06 pm
On 26 June 2007 a Skippers Aviation Embraer EMB-120ER turboprop with 31 people on board nearly crashed on final approach to the Jundee mine airstrip in WA.
The ATSB final report into this serious incident reads like a tour through the wild west, or worst, of Australian air transport.
It has bad piloting, dismal airline management, inadequate [...]
AF447 speculation in tatters
June 4, 2009 – 1:51 pm
As usual early in air accident inquiries, there is growing confusion over what happened in what sequence to Air France flight AF447 early on 1 June over the mid Atlantic.
It all seemed a lot simpler 24 hours ago. The A330-200 had broken apart in mid air after flying through wild weather. There is widespread wreckage [...]
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 [...]
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