2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching · Australia
On November 18, 2009, 2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching (Australia). No one was seriously hurt.
- Date
- November 18, 2009
- Place
- Australia
- Operator
- Pel-Air
- Killed
- 0
- Position
- 29.075°S, 167.950°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q4614584
From Wikipedia
The 2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching or Norfolk Island ditching was an aircraft accident on 18 November 2009 near Norfolk Island, Australia. A Westwind II jet operated by Pel-Air was conducting an air ambulance flight for CareFlight when it was forced to ditch after being unable to land in bad weather and not having sufficient fuel to divert to an alternate destination.
The official accident report issued 2+1⁄2 years later by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) attracted wide criticism, and resulted in an Australian Senate Enquiry that found both the ATSB and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) had failed to carry out their responsibilities with respect to the accident investigation. In response to the criticism, the ATSB requested that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada review the ATSB's investigation methodologies and processes, and subsequently reopened the investigation on 8 December 2014. The final report of the reopened investigation was released on 23 November 2017, and contained 531 pages and 36 safety factors.
Text from Wikipedia, “2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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