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Pilot killed along with pregnant wife was unlicensed

Safety authorities say a pilot killed alongside his pregnant wife when their light plane went down in rough weather did not hold a licence to fly.

AAP

Bird strike behind fatal crop duster crash, ATSB finds

Authorities investigating a pilot's death in southern Queensland have ruled a large bird shattered his crop duster's windshield as it flew low over a property.

AAP

CASA review of Sea World helicopter crash airspace 'inappropriate', 'window dressing', say aviation experts

CASA is reviewing the airspace where two helicopters collided on the Gold Coast, killing four people. But an aviation industry consultant says they may be "preparing themselves" for the outcome of a wider ATSB investigation due next year.

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Airspace review under way at Gold Coast collision site

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is reviewing the Gold Coast airspace in which two helicopters tragically collided in January.

The New Daily

Fuel line fire likely to blame for flight that killed nurse in Kununurra

The outback milk-run flight turned to tragedy after a fire filled the cockpit with smoke causing the plane to crash near a runway in Kununurra.

ABC News

Plane failed to take off due to parking brake not being fully released, safety report finds

An investigation finds the parking handle brake on a plane leaving from Flinders Island runway last November had not been completely returned to a panel, causing the pilot to "call failure" and stop the take off.

ABC News

Australian Transport Safety Bureau finds Boeing 737 crashed into ridge while fighting fire

Authorities complete their preliminary investigation into a firebombing aircraft crash in Western Australia's south earlier this year, revelaing the pilots escaped through a cockpit window.

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Helicopter crash inquest into instructor Roger Corbin's death hears trainee pilot 'woke up trapped' in wreckage

The trainee pilot who survived a helicopter crash that killed a veteran Tasmanian pilot tells an inquest that he has no memory of the moment of impact and "woke up trapped in the aircraft".

ABC News

Helicopter pilot 'always about safety', inquest told

An inquest has begun into the death of an experienced flying instructor in a helicopter crash during a training exercise at Hobart Airport.

AAP

Divers remove wreckage of plane that crashed into ocean at Leighton Beach in North Fremantle

A salvage crew removes the wreckage of a light plane from the ocean on Friday afternoon after it came down just off Perth's Leighton Beach in North Fremantle.

ABC News

Lockhart River fatal plane crash inquest to look at training, safety, and warning systems

The coroner says Liz Thomas has unique capacity and knowledge as a spouse and a pilot, and will likely be called to an inquest into the 2020 plane crash that killed five men in far north Queensland.

ABC News

Rail Safety Regulator charges Queensland Rail over Westwood train crash that killed worker

The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator has filed three charges over the 2021 incident, in which the locomotive hit a parked coal train and killed a man.

ABC News

West Australian government scathing of CASA over Broome helicopter crash that killed Amber Millar and Troy Thomas

Western Australia's tourism minister says federal regulators need to make sure aviation operators are following the law, after the family of a 12-year-old girl killed in a helicopter crash in Broome called for drastic changes.

ABC News

Family of girl killed in Broome chopper crash calls for aviation crackdown as ATSB finds safety failures

The family of a 12-year-old girl killed in a helicopter crash in Broome three years ago calls for drastic changes to the regulation of tourist flights after a scathing report.

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Pilot in fatal chopper crash had 'high-risk appetite'

The pilot of a helicopter involved in a fatal crash three years ago had a history of risk-taking and was not legally allowed to fly, a report has found.

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Soviet-era aircraft travelling below 500ft before crashing into ocean off Gold Coast, inquest finds

Investigators were not able to determine with certainty that Gold Coast pilot Martinus van Hattem was completing an aerobatic manoeuvre immediately before the fatal crash off South Stradbroke Island in 2019, but it was considered a possibility.

AAP

Kit plane crashed just after takeoff, killing two

Australia's national transport safety investigator says a US kit-built plane crashed in southwest Sydney after a short maiden flight.

ABC News

ATSB releases preliminary report in investigation into fatal NT Christmas Eve plane crash

A light plane crash that claimed the life of a young pilot and his single passenger on Christmas Eve last year happened amid severe thunderstorms and lightning strikes, early investigations have revealed.

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Daily Mirror

SeaWorld helicopter crash pilot reveals what happened moments before deadly collision

Michael James, a SeaWorld helicopter pilot in the aircraft less severely affected in the crash, said he saw five passengers boarding the second helicopter in Australia's Gold Coast

ABC News

Key crew members on Goliath did not complete safety training before tugboat sinkings, ATSB finds

The ship's master and second mate on the bulk cement carrier vessel which crashed into and sank two tugboats in Tasmania's north-west last year had not undertaken required training, a safety regulator's report finds.

ABC News

Pilot killed in large air tanker crash during Black Summer was about to retire, inquest hears

Ian McBeth was one of three US firefighters killed when the C130 large air tanker they were were flying crashed during Black Summer.

Daily Mirror

Pilot 'didn't hear' call before take-off in horror Sea World helicopter crash

A pilot "did not recall" his fellow pilot making a standard taxiing call to say he was taking off before their helicopters collided and crashed in Australia, tragically killing four people and injuring nine others

The Independent UK

Helicopter pilot ‘did not hear radio call’ before Gold Coast crash that killed British couple

Diane and Ron Hughes, from Neston, Cheshire, died in the collision at Main Beach

Liverpool Echo

Report into helicopter crash questions if pilot made radio call before take off

Four people were killed and nine injured in the mid-air crash off Australia's Gold Coast

The Guardian - UK

Helicopter pilot did not hear radio call in Gold Coast crash that killed four – report

Australian transport bureau releases interim report into midair collision between sightseeing aircraft on Gold Coast

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