Whyalla News
Solve Casa Or Risk Major Crash: Smith
Monday July 31, 2000
The Whyalla Airlines crash which claimed eight lives would be repeated unless the Federal Government solved continuing bureaucratic problems in the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, according to former chairman Mr Dick Smith. An angry Mr Smith predicted that there would be a ``major airline accideCrash Hearing Told Of Threat To Co-owner
Saturday July 29, 2000
A former Whyalla Airlines chief pilot threatened to get even with the airline's co-owner, a tribunal was told yesterday. The airline wants the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to overturn a grounding put in place by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, after a Whyalla Airlines plane crashed off tCrash Plane `had Odd Fuel Gauge'
Saturday July 29, 2000
THE Whyalla Airlines plane involved in a fatal crash had an unusual fuel-flow gauge that had caused problems in the past, a tribunal was told yesterday. The airline is appealing to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to overturn a grounding put in place by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CATorch Lifts Spirits In Whyalla
Thursday July 13, 2000
The arrival of the Olympic torch was a small step in a long healing process for the South Australian town of Whyalla. The town's residents are still mourning the loss of eight lives in a Whyalla Airlines light plane crash in the Spencer Gulf six weeks ago. Torchbearer Kylie Dempsey, 17, saiWhyalla Airlines Attacks Casa
Wednesday July 12, 2000
Whyalla Airlines, the company involved in the Spencer Gulf plane crash that killed eight people, yesterday accused the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of being vindictive, inefficient and unfair. Whyalla Airlines managing director Chris Brougham said CASA was understaffed, overworked, slow and cChastised Over One-engine Landing
Saturday July 8, 2000
The pilot of a Whyalla Airlines plane that crashed in May was earlier chastised for making an emergency landing rather than continuing flying with one engine, a tribunal heard yesterday. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal was told Whyalla Airlines management wanted the pilot, Ben Mackiewicz, tPoor Quality Control Led To Fatality
Saturday July 8, 2000
A lack of quality control at BHP's Whyalla plant contributed to the death of an employee, South Australian Coroner Wayne Chivell said yesterday. Mr Chivell found faulty procedures and processes at the plant, about 400km north-west of Adelaide, contributed to the death of Andrew Grant BaulderstonPilot Suspected Of Error In Air Crash
Monday July 3, 2000
The failure of one engine, exacerbated by pilot error which crippled the second engine, is the most likely cause of the Whyalla Airlines crash in which eight people died, the Herald has been told. Rather than clear 21-year-old pilot Mr Ben Mackiewicz from blame, new evidence revealed by accident