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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.

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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.

ABC News

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.

ABC News

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.

AAP

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.

ABC News

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

Daily Mirror

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.

ABC News

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

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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

Evening Standard

Pilot in mid-air helicopter crash that killed two Brits ‘may not have heard radio call shortly before’

Diane and Ron Hughes, from Neston, Cheshire, died in the collision on the Gold Coast

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Manchester Evening News

Report released on helicopter crash in Australia that killed Cheshire couple

Diane and Ron Hughes tragically died in the mid-air smash on the Gold Coast

Wales Online

Safety board publishes details of helicopter crash that killed two UK tourists

Four people, including two from the UK, died when two helicopters crashed in New South Wales

The Independent UK

Report outlines information about helicopter crash that killed British couple

Diane and Ron Hughes, from Neston, Cheshire, died in the collision on the Gold Coast.

Liverpool Echo

Preliminary report released on helicopter crash that killed couple

Diane and Ron Hughes, from Neston, died in a collision over Main Beach on the Gold Coast on January 2

ABC News

What the preliminary investigation into deadly Sea World helicopter collision on the Gold Coast has revealed

At the time of the collision both helicopters were on scheduled five-minute flights — one returning and the other taking off. The air safety watchdog has revealed more about what led up to the disaster.

The New Daily

Radio silence claim in Gold Coast helicopter tragedy

Three pilots don't recall a colleague radioing to say he was taking off before his helicopter collided with another, killing four people.

AAP

Silence on the airwaves ahead of fatal chopper crash

The initial investigations into a fatal helicopter crash include an assessment of radio transmissions in the seconds ahead of the collision.

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