Queensland on Wednesday night upgraded its NSW border ban to include all of Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Shellharbour. 

The ATSB said David Kerr became “spatially disorientated” and may have put himself under pressure to complete the flight when the light faded, rather than undertake a precautionary landing.

The global defence contractor new sensor — a fully-digital open mission systems (OMS)-compliant wideband active electronically scanned array (AESA) — has been successfully deployed during a flight test.  

The decision follows the Australian state recording 10 new local cases of COVID, though significantly eight of those were already isolating and nine were close contacts to previously identified cases.