Air accident
Teen pilot dies in Sydney light plane crash
The 16-year-old boy was piloting a flight school plane when he crashed into fields near Camden Airport.
- by Josefine Ganko
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Pilot wanted better filming angle before deadly midair collision
Daring midair acrobatics were being filmed when two ex-military jets collided above Port Phillip Bay, sending one plane on a high-speed nosedive into the water and killing two on board.
- by Alex Crowe
Light plane makes emergency landing on beach south of Sydney
Garie Beach is one of Sydney’s most isolated stretches of sand due to the closure of an access road.
- by Anthony Segaert
What caused the hole on the Alaska Airlines flight, and what does it mean for Australia?
The incident in which a panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max tore off over the weekend has airlines looking into whether other aircraft might be at risk.
- by Amelia McGuire
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Pilot praised after passengers walk away from crash on Qld island
A pilot has been praised for his quick thinking after passengers were able to exit the plane before emergency services arrived after a crash on a far north Queensland island.
- by Fraser Barton
Loose bolts found on 737 Max jets as blown panel turns up in teacher’s garden
United Airlines has found loose bolts on multiple 737 Max 9 aircraft – the Boeing model grounded after a cabin panel blew off an Alaska Airlines-operated plane mid-flight.
- by Valerie Insinna and David Shepardson
A window blew out of a plane mid-flight. It’s not Boeing’s first 737 problem
The episode has raised troubling new questions about the safety of a workhorse aircraft design dogged by years of problems and multiple deadly crashes.
- by Christopher F. Schuetze and Keith Bradsher
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Aviation
US officials order grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout
An Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage. The required inspections will affect about 171 planes worldwide.
‘Waiting for it to blow up’: Australian family reveals Japan plane crash terror
An Australian teenager has described how her family managed to escape from the second last row of a Japan Airlines plane, after it burst into flames on the runway.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Japan Coast Guard plane didn’t have OK to be on runway: transcript
Air traffic control transcripts suggest the smaller of the two aircraft was asked to hold short of the runway before it collided with the larger JAL passenger jet.
- by Nicholas Takahashi, Danny Lee and Siddharth Philip
Opinion
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How did so many survive the Japanese plane crash? It was no miracle
To call the swift evacuation of this burning plane miraculous diminishes the significance of a very human achievement.
- by Milad Haghani and Rico Merkert