Australian Transport Safety Bureau

But obviously, the problem being is that if no preventative measures were being taken, then they would progress towards that.

But CASA and the ATSB, I have every faith in them that things will be remedied and that as things come online and air services does more in terms of bringing people on board and i think it's one of those things where there's not enough people know that you can do a traineeship and get paid 50 to 60 000 to learn to be an air traffic controller and then when you become a controller you're getting paid 130 000 for an and i think it's an associate's degree or an advanced diploma so it's the equivalent of a tafe qualification and then you're getting paid 130 000 yeah i

well, maybe the qualifications need to be tougher and maybe the pay needs to go up.

Look, there are screening.

[laughs] Mm.

So the ATSB is, is, is looking into these, you know, six recent runway incidents at Sydney Airport, and the Chief Commissioner, Angus Mitchell, put up an open letter on the ATSB's website, basically saying, "Look, yes, everyone rightly expects the aviation system be, to be operating safely and reliably." He said, "I would like to stress that our highest investigation priority is incidents involving large airport transport aircraft, uh, large air transport aircraft carrying fare-paying passengers.

This policy directs our resources where there is likely to be the greatest public benefit." Um, but what he's sort of said was ...

Now, there's gonna be some preliminary reports starting to be released by the end of the month.

But in transport safety investigations, speed cannot come at the expense of accuracy."

[laughs]

He said, "Our ability to improve safety depends on evidence-based investigations that are comprehensive, defensible, and trusted." So basically, the ATSB is saying, "Yes, we all want to know what happened, but we can't rush this."

This is a measure twice, cut once kind of, um-

Yeah.

Uh, the human factors element I think is gonna be so unraveling, uh, when the, when, when the ATSB comprehensive report comes out.

Yep.

It, it just has all the hallmarks of something that could be studied in universities when it comes to human factors or, you know, as, um, company policy when, when you're trying to determine the human factors involved with decision-making in the industry, because what led the cockpit to unanimously decide to not go around and to continue the unstable approach?

Primeair will definitely take a lot longer.

Yeah, I mean, FAA are already ...

No, I mean FAA and ATSB are notoriously understaffed over there anyway as it is, so yeah, there's that.

[laughs]

Manufacturers are increasingly using, uh, RFID or internet-connected technology to keep tabs on tools and other kit.

In a report last month on a maintenance lapse on an aircraft already in service, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said FOD can pose a significant risk to safe operation of aircraft.

Well, I think it's really good that Airbus stopped deliveries, um, to check these to make sure that it wasn't something common across all of the ones they were constructing at the time.

What do you guys think?

The people tasked with keeping metal tubes packed with human lives from colliding in mid-air are warning us explicitly that the culture inside their agency is putting cost over safety.

And yet, where's the national outrage? Why isn't more being made of this? In recent weeks, alarm bells have been quietly ringing over a string of runway safety issues and near misses at Kingsford Smith Airport, incidents now under investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

Air traffic controllers are burnt out, severely understaffed and routinely working under conditions of extreme fatigue.

As one insider has told The Telegraph today, the only thing standing between Australia and a catastrophic aviation event right now isn't brilliant executive leadership or bulletproof government oversight, no. It's the exhausting dedication and professionalism of frontline controllers pushing themselves to the absolute limit.

56-year-old founder of Baramba Organics Ian Campbell and 23-year-old Hannah Campbell took off from Archifield Airport and were airborne for only eight minutes before crashing onto a rural property.

Investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau are trying to determine what caused the crash that occurred around lunchtime on Monday.

The impact was so severe it set off a small grass fire.

This was quite a confronting scene for our first responders.

Peter, thank you.

Investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau are this morning trying to determine what caused a deadly light plane crash south of Brisbane.

The aircraft had only just taken off from Archerfield Airport when it crashed in a paddock in Logan, killing the man and woman on board.

The impact so severe it set off a small grass