April 21 
Hunter Aerospace - contractors to the Government for maintenance and servicing of the Iroquois military helicopters - have encountered drama over hangar ground lease conditions with the airport operator

Over the past few weeks Hunters have moved from the PNG Talair constructed hangar - where they operated for a number of years - into the hangar previously occupied by QLD Rescue after they were supplied with a new hangar by the airport owner

April 16 
Dick Smith named Airservices management as "basically criminal" in a comment to the media over an incident near Maleny last week where a Virgin passenger jet was allowed to descend to within 130m of a light aircraft

Quoting from the news report:- "..the new rules could do nothing to prevent both aircraft closing to 130m because light aircraft sharing commercial airspace no longer came under their control"

It's understood the controllers still had communication with the passenger jet - the light aircraft passed under the jet with more than the VFR required minimums

Controllers blamed the situation on "untrained pilots" - the News Desk considers it to be untrained controllers

April 16 
Two men escaped injury after their Cessna C210 had a port main undercarriage leg collapse on landing at the remote Northern Territory airstrip of Port Hurd on the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin

Previous NT - C210 incident HERE



Sunday April 11
At Albury airport a single-engine aircraft with 4 people on-board made an emergency landing after making 2 passes over the airfield for an undercarriage "down" inspection - the aircraft landed safely shortly afterwards and without further drama

April 20 
Skydiving in the USA was turned around recently when a 'diver left one aircraft and entered another all during the same free-fall



The Piper Cub entry aircraft was stabilised by a drag chute and with it's propeller stopped the skydiver was able to enter the cockpit

The aircraft was then able to release the drogue 'chute, start the engine and land

(not successful at first attempt - and only 20 seconds allowed to achieve feat)