Archives 2005 Select Month below - Click and then Click again on Selected Month to View Weekly Record JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER January 1 2004 - The Safest Year Ever Recorded for Flying Machines Years 2003 - 2002 - 2001 Recorded Similar Results for Fixed-Wing Aircraft CASA Want Tamper-Proof Recorders for Choppers - Phantom Cow Takes On Landing B737 - QLD Rescue Helicopters Poor Accident Record 2 Advanced Pilot Training Keeps Repair Workshops Busy in Victoria RVAC's Twin-Engine Baron in Classic "Touch-and-Go" Wheels-Up Crop-Duster Pilot Lost at Dirranbandi - UK's EasyJet Suspends Drunk Pilot - Italians Want to Jail 36 Air Traffic Controllers for Defrauding the State 3 Two RAAF PC-9 Roulette Aircraft in Mid-Air Collision near East Sale One Pilot Ejects - The Other Lands back at the RAAF Air Base Safely Airbus Industries Launch New 800 Seat A380 "Super Double-Decker Jumbo" Airliner 4 Brisbane International Airport Closed to Large Heavies for 3 Hours Boeing B727 Freighter Stuck in Boggy Ground alongside Main Runway USA's Steve Fossett Prepares for Around-the-World Solo Non-Stop Record February 1 Heavy Accident Claims 104 Lives Overseas - Light Aircraft in NZ 3 Lives Afghan B737 and Piper Seneca Disoriented in Bad Weather Approaches Biz-Jet Aborts Take-Off in USA & Prangs - OZ Controlled Airspace Considered Complicated - Brisbane Flying Group Swaps Operations From Sunland to Flight Training Australia 2 Light Aircraft Security of Concern to OZ Authorities Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 Effective March 2005 All Unattended Light Aircraft to be Secured against Unlawful Interference 3 Archerfield Flying Training Operators to be Guided by Marketing Specialist Promotional Business Management Attracted by Decline in Flying Activity USA Airline Pilots New Job as Sheriff - Civil Air Controllers Union Targeted by Pilot - Training Prangs Continue to Create Jobs for Workshops - Caloundra DH-82A Prop-Strike 4 The Last Great Aviation Adventure about to Get Under-Way USA's Steve Fossett Wants the Solo Non-Stop Around World Record March 1 The Burt Rutan Designed GlobalFlyer Succeeds on First Attempt Adventurer Steve Fossett Claims Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation Record High Profile Military Trained Chief Flying Instructor Ends up Inverted in Perth Yard 2 Italian Air Traffic Controllers in the Spotlight over Fatal Accident Milan Court Sends 4 Controllers to Jail for Involvement that Killed 118 Cessna C310 Accident at Tamworth Claims One Life - Archerfield 's DC-4 For Sale (again) 3 Australian International Airshow at Avalon in Victoria Captures Media Interest Wide Coverage Commits Government to Supporting the Airshow up to 2015 Russian An-24 Airliner Down in Flames with a Loss of 28 Lives - 24 Survive 4 Collision of Sailplanes in Same Thermal Claims One Life near Benalla One Gliding Club of Victoria Member able to Parachute to Safety First Commercial Aircraft Certified to Operate on Ethanol made from Sugar Cane April 1 Aussie Defence Force Sea-King Helicopter Lost in Humanitarian Action Accident Claims 9 Members - 2 Survive on Earthquake Hit Nias Island 2 Kiwi Prime Minister involved in Light Aircraft In-Flight Emergency Entry Door Opens at 8000 feet - Pilot Issues Mayday - Lands Successfully 3 Gympie Glider Accident Claims Life of Pilot's Sister During Joy-Flight South OZ has Cessna Retractable Belly-Landing During Take-Off 4 Cessna C150 Aerobat and Pilot Lost in Victoria Private Simulator takes-over Private Flying Role - Netherlands 9/13 PC's May 1 Queenslanders Honour Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen in State Funeral Kiwi Fairchild Metro 111 Freighter Lost in Unusual Circumstances 2 RPT Metroliner Impacts 1500' Hill on Approach to Iron Range in FNQ All 15 Passengers and Crew on the Aero-Tropics 19-seat Prop-jet Killed 3 7KCAB Citabria Engulfed in Flames after Forced Landing in South OZ Mature Age Pilot and Young Passenger unable to Escape Ensuring Inferno 4 Airport Luggage Checks in OZ not as Competent as in Bali Indonesia Recent Court Case Highlights Poor Training and Suspect Equipment Archerfield's Warbirds Museum Founder Forced Return to OZ "Health & Holiday" Resort June 1 Jet Fuel Powered New Technology Light Aircraft Piston Engines Advance Low Maintenance "Compression-Ignition" Replacing "Spark-Ignition" 2 Pilot Flying Training Costs in OZ Twice as Expensive as in USA High Cost Attributed to OZ Air Services Monopoly with "User Pays" 3 It Pays to have Two of Everything when Flying - "Just-in-Case" Two Pilots - Two Engines - Two Fuel Tanks and Two Handy Airports Cirrus Takes Over Lead in Light Aircraft Sales - 2,000th Aircraft Delivered in USA 4 World Record Claim for Issue of Single-Engine Maintenance Release Late Model Cessna C208 Turbine Owner Charged $78,900 for Service Cessna C182 Light Aircraft Accident in USA Claims Two Aussies - One of the World's Richest Men Killed in Home-Built Ultralight Accident - Coolangatta Airport Flooded after Torrential Winter Rain - Murphy's Law Applied to the Word 'DUCK' when Performing Aerobatics July 1 Vickers Vimy Bomber Replica Re-Enactment of 1919 Atlantic Flight Pioneer Pilots Alcock and Brown's Crossing 86 Years Ago Remembered 2 Aircraft Maintenance Workshops Around OZ Struggle to Meet Costs Paint Shop at Archerfield Latest Victim of Decline in Flying Activity Chartered Piper Chieftain and 3 POB Lost in Victoria's High Country during Snow Storm 3 Tourist Cessna C210 Force-Lands on Remote West OZ Station Perth Family on Joy-Flight over Kimberley Area Escape Unharmed Darling Downs Soaring Club Glider Pilot Lost in Out-Field Landing Accident 4 Archerfield Airport "Master Plan" Under Attack by Local Aviators Pilots Gain Prime-Time News Coverage over Non-Aviation Plans German Untralight Pilot Suicides in Spectacular Fashion on Reichstag Lawn in Berlin August 1 Hangar Dismantled at Archerfield after Ground Lease Expires Owners Choose to Leave Airport after 30+ Years Occupation Fire Engulfs Airbus A340 - Lands Long During Storm in Canada and Runs Out of Runway 2 Airport Master Plan Views Archerfield as Industrial Park Aviation Based Industry to Get-the-Boot from the Airfield 3 Two Passenger Jet Accidents in Two Days Claim 281 Persons Boeing B-737 Down near Athens Greece - MD-82 in Venezuela Brisbane Show Week Attracts Light Aircraft from the West to Archerfield 4 Another Passenger Jet Down - This Time in Peru - 40 Lives Lost OZ Registered Nanchang CJ-6A and Pilot Lost in Aerobatic Training September 1 B737 Passenger Jet Down Yet Again - Indonesia - 149 Lives Lost Aerobatic CAP 232 Aircraft Grounded after Loss of French Military Pilot 2 Professional Pilot Lost in Home-Built Accident near Inglewood Indications of Engine Failure and Unsuccessful Forced Landing Light Aircraft Prangs - Bankstown - Jandakot - The Kimberley and Kununurra Kiwi's Sell Entire Air Force Combat Wing of 34 Aircraft to Private USA Buyer 3 Kiwi Pilot Alarms Auckland's Populace on Election Night Flying Instructor in Piper Cherokee Threatens Sky-Tower 4 "It could only happen in America" - Live 'Entertainment' as You Crash Passengers on Disabled Jet Watched Live TV as Airbus Crash-Lands Mature Age Couple Lost in Beech A36 Accident Near Tenterfield October 1  Helicopter Blade Strikes Senior Flying Instructor at Maroochydore  High Time Experienced Pilots Involved in Three Flying Accidents  Mature Age Pilots in Two Accidents in Central West - 66 and 69 Year-Olds 2  Boonah Ultralight Emergency Procedure Practice Turns Genuine  Pilot Training Instructor and Student Injured in Heavy Landing  OZ Home-Builder Jon Johanson Receives FAI Gold Medal for 47 World Records 3  Proposed Master Plan for Archerfield Undergoing Stringent Analysis  Environment Planning University Students to Submit New Proposal 4  Boeing B737 Passenger Jets Around World Continue to Crash  This Time It's Nigeria - All Passengers and Crew Lost on Impact  Light Aircraft Accidents Claim Four Lives - One in Crop-Duster - Three in Ultralights  How Not to Do IT! - OZ News Media Enthralled with On-Road Take-Off Mishap  "Mature Age Pilots" Living Longer - More Daring - "Old Bold" Pilots Live On November 1  Australia's Only Flying 2-Seat Hawker Hunter Lands with Mains Retracted 2  Flying Double-Decker Bus Arrives for Qantas Anniversary Celebrations  Radial Engine Operating Expertise Maintained by Dedicated Enthusiasts 3  Recent Home-Built Fatal Accident Indicates In-Flight Structual Failure  Fracture of Port Wing Attach Web Evident During Post-Crash Inspection  Working Holiday Flying the Globe - Kiwi Boss in Qantas Emergency 4  Recent Controlled Flight into Terrain Accidents Claim 24 Lives in OZ  Controller's Console Alarms Activated - Radar Advisory's NOT ISSUED  Military Pilots Need More Training on How-to-Land Light Aircraft December 1  Extreme Weather Conditions Claim Piper Chieftain and Four Lives  In-Flight Break-Up Kills OZ's Top Landholder and Cattle Producer 99 Passengers on Virgin B737 Involved in Emergency Descent from 34,000 OZ Professional Pilots Involved in 70 Fatal's - Private Pilots 9 - Same Time Period OZ Designed Cobra Arrow Home-Built Pilot Lucky when Machine Engulfed in Flames 2  Rotary Wing Machines Involved in Two Accidents in Far North QLD  One in Western QLD Claims Pilot after Wire Strike during Mustering Experienced High Time Gyrocopter Pilot Lost near Charleville Mustering Goats 3  8-Seat Airvan Tossed against Hangar Door during Sunshine Coast Storm  Home-Built Glider & Pilot Lost carrying out Low-Level Turn at Caboolture USA In-Flight Break-Up - Wing Separates from Grumman Mallard Killing 20 POB 4  CASA Challenge Dick Smith's Report Over Increase in Accidents  Statistics Show Decline in Fatal Accidents Over Last 15 Years Rotary-Wing Aircraft Continue to Crash - R44 Robbo Down at at Theodore Pilot Escapes Unharmed after Parachute C182 Ditches off Victoria's Whites Beach © AirCentre 1996 - Private Pilots are an Endangered Human Species in Australia from Lack of Support by Authorities   HOME