Staff reporter

Born in Melbourne, His Honour Austin Asche AC KC spent his early years in Darwin and Melbourne, serving in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, and later earned a bachelor and master of laws from the University of Melbourne.

Hosted in support with principal partner Space Centre Australia, the two-day event will feature two main stages with more than 70 senior industry figures talking about the space and defence sectors.

The new centre is located at RAAF Base Edinburgh, around 25 kilometres north of Adelaide, and would be available for use by No. 92 Wing’s P-8A Poseidon aircraft used to conduct surveillance operations throughout Australia’s airspace.

Several minor injuries were sustained during the evacuation of VH-ZRK on 5 April 2022, which had two flight crew, a flight attendant and 23 passengers on board for a flight to King Island, while some passengers exited the plane with their bags.

Based at RAAF East Sale in Victoria, the RAAF’s Pilatus PC-21 fleet has a total of 49 aircraft and has been in use by the Air Force for more than seven years, having replaced both the ageing Pilatus PC-9/A advanced trainer, which was in service since 1988, and the CT-4B Airtrainer, which was used for basic training.

The 737-800, VH-YQR, was operating a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne on 6 September last year when a member of the cabin crew requested to enter the flight deck as the plane reached cruising altitude near Ballina.