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23.01.2022 A Piper PA-36 aerial application aircraft forced landed in a paddock shortly after take-off after experiencing an engine power loss that was probably the result of water-contaminated fuel, an ATSB investigation has found. https://www.atsb.gov.au//new/2020/water-contaminated-fuel/

22.01.2022 The ATSB has released a Safety Advisory Notice to Yakovlev Yak-52 aircraft owners and maintainers highlighting the potential for fatigue cracking in Yak-52 aluminium alloy elevator bellcranks. http://www.atsb.gov.au//2020/yak-52-elevator-bellcrank-san/

21.01.2022 A maintenance electrician was inadvertently briefly beneath a moving train wagon during a shunting operation at the Skitube Alpine Railway’s Bullocks Flat Terminal, a new ATSB investigation report details. http://www.atsb.gov.au//news-/2020/track-worker-near-miss/

21.01.2022 The ATSB's investigation into the collision with terrain of a Bell JetRanger during feral animal culling highlights the importance of independent inspections following maintenance and the effective management of risks for low-level aerial shooting operations. http://www.atsb.gov.au//2021/effective-management-of-risks/

20.01.2022 An ATSB investigation into an accident where a Squirrel helicopter struck a powerline pole identified that the operator’s procedures had no requirements to provide any post-training supervision for powerline operations, and that what supervision was provided was ineffective in identifying that the pilot was using a modified stringing method. http://www.atsb.gov.au//news-ite/2021/powerline-stringing/

18.01.2022 The pilot of a Wittman Tailwind light aircraft that impacted a ridgeline in the Tooloom National Park near the NSW-Queensland border on 12 January 2020 likely became spatially disorientated after encountering poor weather, an ATSB investigation has found. https://www.atsb.gov.au//news/2021/spatial-disorientation/

18.01.2022 The ATSB and Airservices Australia remind all pilots and operators this Airport Safety Week to be aware that stop bar lights at runway intersections are now in operation at five capital city airports around Australia, and not to cross a lit stop bar at any time. http://www.atsb.gov.au//news-i/2020/dont-cross-it-stop-it/

16.01.2022 Rail infrastructure including 4,350 sleepers were damaged when the wheelset of a wagon of a fully loaded coal train derailed near Moss Vale due to fatigue cracking, a new transport safety investigation report says. https://www.atsb.gov.au//news-items/2020/coal-train-wagon/

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14.01.2022 The ATSB is considering a number of factors that could have contributed to a Robinson R44’s main rotor blade striking the helicopter’s fuselage in flight as part of its ongoing investigation into a 2 December 2020 collision with terrain accident east of Goulburn. http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/news-items//main-rotor-strike/

08.01.2022 Turbulence during a shallower than intended landing approach resulted in the pilot of a Cessna 172 aircraft electing to reduce power and land in a tree canopy about 50 metres short of the runway threshold, an ATSB report says. https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/news-items//shallow-approach/

08.01.2022 A near collision where a Piper PA-28 training aircraft turned in front of an ATR72 regional airliner, reducing separation between the two aircraft to about 110 metres horizontally and 75 feet vertically, illustrates the dangers of making assumptions and having incomplete situational awareness, an ATSB investigation highlights. http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/news-items/2020/near-collision/

07.01.2022 To all our friends at Qantas, past and present, congratulations on 100 years of connecting Australians, and connecting Australia to the world!

07.01.2022 A twin piston-engined Angel 44 utility aircraft was conducting a simulated engine failure, when, about 20 seconds after take-off from Mareeba Airport in far north Queensland, it rolled rapidly to the right and impacted the ground, fatally injuring the pilot and instructor. https://www.atsb.gov.au//ne/2020/simulated_engine_failure/

06.01.2022 Chairman of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots, Captain Rob Dicker (left) presents ATSB Chief Commissioner, Greg Hood with the Honourable Company's bicentennial award for his contribution to aviation over a career that has spanned more than 40 years during a black tie dinner on Friday night at the Naval, Military and Air Force Club in Adelaide. While accepting the award, Chief Commissioner Hood paid his respects to the Kaurna people, acknowledged the contribution made by th...ose who have served in the Defence of our Nation, and said he was greatly humbled and privileged to receive this prestigious award. He also thanked the Honourable Company, and paid tribute to two early aviation mentors Bob Foreman and Rob Moore (who was present at the dinner) for the manner in which they fostered his interest in aviation whilst an air training corps cadet in the mid-1970s. Chief Commissioner Hood, born and bred in South Australia, began his career as an air traffic controller in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1980. He has since held a wide range of operational, training and management roles within Airservices Australia and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. He was appointed to the role of Chief Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the ATSB in July 2016.

06.01.2022 November 4 marks the 10th anniversary of Qantas A380 flight QF32's uncontained engine failure after departure from Singapore. The ATSB's subsequent investigation, one of the most complex the agency has undertaken, focused on how the engine failed, quality assurance processes, and damage to the aircraft. http://www.atsb.gov.au//investigati/2010/aair/ao-2010-089/

05.01.2022 The ATSB is continuing its investigation into a separation occurrence in uncontrolled airspace near Ballina where recorded data showed that the tracks of an Airbus A320 and a private Jabiru two-seat recreational aircraft intersected with a vertical separation of about 600 feet. http://www.atsb.gov.au//2021/ballina-separation-occurrence/

05.01.2022 An ATSB preliminary investigation report details that the container ship APL England was rolling and pitching heavily in rough seas and high winds when it lost 50 containers overboard about 46nm south-east of Sydney on 24 May. https://www.atsb.gov.au//n/2020/apl-england-prelim-report/