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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau warns helicopter operators to inspect their aircraft's drive shaft after a fatal crash in Launceston earlier this year during bushfire water bombing.

The pilot's training will be examined at an inquest into a plane crash off the Gold Coast that investigators say may have been caused by low level aerobatics.

A light plane with four people on board is forced to make an emergency landing near Lake Eyre in South Australia's far north.

A preliminary report into a fatal helicopter crash at Mount Disappointment, at the southern end of the Great Dividing Range, reveals pilots were surrounded by cloud in the moments leading up to the disaster.

A Victorian pilot was told to turn around minutes before a fatal helicopter crash at Mt Disappointment, a preliminary report says.

An incorrect steering setting was selected on a cement carrier ship when it unexpectedly sped up and collided with two tugboats in Tasmania's north-west, causing millions of dollars worth of damage.

A water-bombing helicopter fighting bushfires in Tasmania's north in February was spotted 'yawing' before crashing to the ground, killing the pilot.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau releases its early findings into a remote Northern Territory chopper crash that killed prominent Outback Wrangler cast member Chris Wilson, while he was collecting crocodile eggs.

The high-profile businessman's body was found among the wreckage in Kosciuszko National Park, along with a 64-year-old woman believed to have been his partner.

A 75-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman from northern Sydney died in the helicopter crash on Monday night, which investigators say is the "ninth fatal aircraft [incident] that we've investigated in half as many months".

A fatal plane crash that claimed the life of a 44-year-old pilot at Maitland two years ago was most likely caused by a damaged oil cooler that starved the engine of oil leading to a loss of power and eventual engine stall, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation has found.