CASA has been forced to 'return' the pilot's licence of NT's high-profile helicopter pilot Milton Jones after a successful appeal in the General Administrative Division of the AAT - subject to him undertaking further training to update his "knowledge gaps" and demonstration of the "decision making skills" applicable to his flight crew licences

"While cancellation is not appropriate, I am satisfied Mr Jones’s licences should be suspended until:
(a) he is able to demonstrate he has attended to the gaps in his knowledge...
(b) he has demonstrated the decision-making skills required of the holder of those flight crew licences..."

Initial investigation by the USA's NTSB indicate the reason for the recent fatal crash of Scaled Composites SS2 was more likely to be from an uncommanded deployment of the re-entry 'shuttle-cock' tail-boom than an engine malfunction

"...the crew activated one of two controls ...the tail surfaces appeared to have moved into the entry position before the second control was activated" - "the NTSB said both the engine and the tanks were found relatively intact at the crash site"

One of Air New Zealand's female pilots - Ann Barbarich - has died in hospital two days after a suspected brain aneurysm rendered her incapable of completing her flight from Auckland to Perth on Sunday

"One of the three other pilots in the cockpit at the time took control (after landing) taxiing it to the gate" - "Captain Barbarich was taken to the Royal Perth Hospital (where) she died two days later"