https://australianaviation.com.au Australia's Leading News Source in Aviation Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:08:04 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.1 https://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-AAV0003_AustraliaAviation_Logo_Reversed-1-1.jpg https://australianaviation.com.au 32 32 https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/03/ambulance-victoria-extends-helicopter-partnership-with-babcock/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/03/ambulance-victoria-extends-helicopter-partnership-with-babcock/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:06:23 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1381220 The extension, valued at more than $370 million, will come into effect from 1 January 2026, and will see Babcock continue to supply Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) for AV until 2030. AV’s HEMS responded to 2,197 incidents last year, with an average of almost 200 cases each month.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/03/ambulance-victoria-extends-helicopter-partnership-with-babcock/feed/ 0 https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/02/lifeflight-adds-3-new-leonardo-aw139-helicopters/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/02/lifeflight-adds-3-new-leonardo-aw139-helicopters/#respond Wed, 28 Feb 2024 04:58:28 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1379737 The Queensland-based aeromedical organisation is expanding its AW139 fleet to 16, with three other rotary and four fixed-wing aircraft also in its stable. The AW139s will be used to provide emergency medical services as well as search and rescue response missions.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/02/lifeflight-adds-3-new-leonardo-aw139-helicopters/feed/ 0 https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/01/white-out-heavy-cloud-caused-fatal-2022-ec130-crash-says-atsb/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:35:43 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1367731 The crash of VH-XWD on 31 March 2022, which killed all five people on board and was labelled “among the worst in Victoria’s history”, was a result of the pilot inadvertently flying into weather conditions that required instruments despite operating under visual flight rules (VFR).]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/01/gold-coast-crash-pilot-took-cocaine-in-days-before-collision/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 02:03:06 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1366509 However, an ATSB interim report into the incident concluded that the low concentrations of the drug suggested it would unlikely to have been an “impairment of his psychomotor skills”.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/12/atsb-details-bell-helicopter-pilots-harrowing-underwater-escape/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 05:08:52 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1363467 The Bell 204B firefighting helicopter, registered VH-EQW, was collecting water from a dam at Tarome in south-east Queensland on 20 September when it crashed, destroying it and causing minor injuries to the pilot.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/11/casa-shares-blame-in-king-river-crash-says-lawyer/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:14:19 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1360745 Peter Carter, director of Carter Capner Law and former national president of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, said the incident should “sound alarm bells” for the safety regulator and that Wilson’s family may be entitled to compensation over the incident.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/11/lack-of-fuel-likely-killed-netflix-star-in-helicopter-crash-says-atsb/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:19:48 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1359813 An investigation by the transport safety watchdog determined that the Robinson R44 VH-IDW, which was on a mission to collect crocodile eggs near the King River in February 2022, likely ran out of fuel while Wilson was in a sling line below the helicopter, causing the engine to stop.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/11/minister-defends-casa-over-handling-of-broome-chopper-crash/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 04:41:40 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1355329 The minister told ABC Radio in Perth this week that CASA “can’t be everywhere” in response to questions from host Nadia Mitsopoulos over whether the crash, which took the life of 12-year-old Amber Jess Millar (pictured), could have been prevented had CASA been more proactive.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/10/decision-making-is-critical-during-rotary-wing-medevac-operations/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:00:03 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1337415 Babcock pilot Shaun Willson discusses how operational decision-making between the medical team and aircrew during a complex medevac are critical when a patient’s life is at stake.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/10/single-747-flies-6-water-bombers-back-to-australia/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 06:56:36 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1338224 Australian Aviation reported two years ago how the same McDermott Aviation aircraft were taken to Europe on a larger Antonov An124 to tackle wildfires in the region.  ]]>