Near Miss Blamed on Atc Air traffic control procedures at Wellington airport have been blamed for a near miss involving a Boeing 737 carrying 66 passengers and crew and a smaller aircraft. The Air New Zealand 737 and a Piper Tomahawk passed in opposite directions about 350m apart and avoided a collision only by chance.

TALES Definitely the lighter side of aviation! Panic Airways! In the early days of postwar civil aviation things were fairly relaxed and it was not unusual for crew pranks to be developed to a near art form. Our story has an unnamed airline’s DC-3ambling along between Sydney and Brisbane in the late forties. On board

Qantas Introduces Tcas to Further Ehance Safety In a further step towards improving the safety of air travel, Qantas is now in the final stages of installing an alerting system which advises the crews of its 747s and 767s of conflicting traffic, and indicates the action to be taken to avoid it. The equipment, known

A10 – British Aerospace HS.748 Originally designed by Avro (the A V Roe & Co Ltd of Manchester), then continued by the newly amalgamated Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, the HS. 748 was Britain’s answer to the Dakota replacement. The first prototype, registered G-APZV, flew on June 24 1960 and a later aircraft with more powerful