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The project is being overseen by Angela Garvey – Australian Aviation’s Excellence Award winner – and hopes to help ensure that aviation workers can access support without fear of judgement or repercussions from employers or regulatory bodies.
The transport safety watchdog has issued a safety advisory noting that “non-specification rivets” had been installed on the plane, which went down at Jandakot Airport in April, killing its pilot.
VH-HJE ran out of fuel en route from Bankstown to Archerfield on 7 April 2023 on the return leg of a freight charter flight, the ATSB said in its final report. It struck multiple trees on its way down, sustaining “substantial” damage but inflicting only “very minor injuries” to the pilot.
In its final report, the transport safety watchdog found that the control yoke was likely continually pushed forward during the steep descent of VH-CPQ, which crashed on 24 January, killing its student pilot, but could not find a reason for the strange input.
VH-DZJ crashed in Port Phillip Bay on 19 November 2023 after colliding with another S-211, VH-DQJ, during an aerobatic formation filming flight.
In its preliminary report, the transport safety watchdog said that the Chipmunk VH-POR, a former military training aircraft that collided with the ground shortly after take-off on 26 April, killing its pilot, appeared to have two unfastened latches on its left engine cowling door as it was taxiing.
