Air Incidents

Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs died when their MRH-90 Taipan helicopter ditched into the ocean off the Queensland coast in 2023.

Major General Stephen Jobson told an independent inquiry into the crash that the problems with the Taipan fleet were well-known among higher-ups. 

The ATSB has found that the 22-year-old man's Cessna aerodynamically stalled while he was carrying out mustering work.

Fuel mismanagement, maintenance oversights and "organisational pressures" contributed to a plane's crash landing on a highway in Western Australia in 2023, according to Australia's air safety watchdog.

A passenger fatally shot the hijacker with a licensed firearm, allowing the small plane to land safely outside Belize City.

A man has died after a plane he was piloting crashed into an airstrip in White Cliffs this morning.  

A Spanish family of five holidaying in New York have been killed after a helicopter they were in fell from the sky into the Hudson River.

Onlookers say they saw the helicopter falling apart in the air, before it crashed into the water in New York, killing six people.

Officials say the tour aircraft lost control and hit the water upside down near Lower Manhattan. The helicopter tour company's owner said he had "no clue" why the crash happened.

An industry expert says the aviation watchdog should have identified the faulty radio that contributed to a fatal mid-air helicopter crash at Sea World on the Gold Coast. 

The Australian Transport Safety Burea report has found a series of safety issues contributed to the crash that killed four people and injured nine others in 2023.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is set to deliver the findings from its investigation into a mid-air collision that killed four people and seriously injured six others on the Gold Coast in 2023.

The Defence Flight Safety Bureau (DFSB) investigation has concluded into the army Taipan helicopter crash that killed four personnel during a training exercise off the Queensland coast in 2023.

The airshow is resuming on Saturday following a crash on Friday that left pilot, Glenn Collins, from Paul Bennet Airshows, with critical injuries.

A plane has crashed in front of thousands of onlookers during an aerobatic performance near Geelong in Victoria.

A pilot who died in a plane crash at Jandakot Airport last year was likely distracted by a loose engine cover, a report finds. 

An inquiry into the deaths of four defence members in a helicopter crash off Queensland's coast has become heated, as an unlikely witness took the stand.

Police say the pilot, aged in his 60s, was the sole occupant of the light aircraft that crashed near Ogilvie, about 500km north of Perth.

A US-based marine robotics company will be paid $110.2 million if it locates the flight's wreckage in a new 15,000-square-kilometre site in the southern Indian Ocean

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