January 31 
Saturday last saw a Piper Seneca III making the news media when the nosewheel collapsed during a "bouncy" landing and rollout at Archerfield

The visiting NSW pilot - with his family on board the PA-34 twin - were all uninjured

Whyalla Airlines accident in media (again) suggesting the original ASTB report to be incorrect and the pilot and operator should not be blamed for the tragedy in May 2000

 January 23 
Another aviation based media report has indicated that airline accidents worldwide last year killed more people "than at any time since 1996"

The report from Flight International's annual safety review conflicts sharply with the Geneva based report mentioned in Week Two of last month that indicated the safety was "lowest annual toll since 1947"

"Figures published today in Flight International's annual safety review show an abrupt halt in the six-year downward trend in fatal accident numbers"

 January 27 
Air Safety Australia has contacted pilot members to advise they are no longer alone if they require help in dealing with CASA after a member had his licence cancelled

"A recent court hearing over the cancellation of the private pilot licence saw a large number of interested people turn up to the Horsham Magistrate's Court in Victoria"

 January 23 
The pilot, the only person on board a Cessna C152 that went down 8km west of Berry, was eventually rescued after initial attempts by the search and rescue helicopters to get to the crash site were hindered by an extremely low cloud base and smoke haze

"Rescue teams located him strapped in the seat of his aircraft upside down in a tree on the side of a mountain"

The 52-year-old Nowra local had head injuries and leg fractures and was taken to Shoalhaven hospital