Old Acro has probably missed the point in using the flight tests following the Essendon PN68 disaster in 1978 as these tests were supposed to prove that the Pilot did it!  The report came out a week o...

Old Acro, has the Partenavia crash details all wrong, he is just following the then Departments coverup of the Design failure of the Trim System FAR 23 requirements on trim runaway pilot strength requ...

Sandy, I think CAsA  are now being very pro-active, I see in todays TV programs they are proposing a new Dept. Today on ABC3 at 6-18 there is a program called DOIP, Depatment of Imaginary Problems ...

Follow Up Stan’s reference to the Moorabbin incident which involved a Trim Runaway Nose- Up actually resulted in the Department finally conducting flight tests that they should have conducted in 19...

Here is the longer version Quote: -- Partenavia P68B aircraft autopilot and trim systems Prepared by Alan C Baskett Introduction On the 10th July 1978 the Partenavia P68B VH-PNW crashed at Essend...

I should have said Correct and then covered up by the then ATSB 6317Alan

Correct! Alan

Special investigation report 79-1 This Accident Investigation Report prepared by the Dept while appearing to be extensive and detailed in its investigation of this accident is in fact deficient in ...

Late last week I happened to see on the Wikipedia listing for Partenavia P68 that in the “Incidents and Accidents” section I noticed that the crash of VH_PNW was not listed! As this was a major accide...