IPEC Aviation – Aviation Historical Society of Australia

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Aviation Heritage Vol. 54 No. 2 (June 2023) Contents Listing

The latest quarterly AHSA journal - Aviation Heritage - has recently been posted to members. The contents of all articles are listed below: Aviation...

1999 AirServices Australia was awarded the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 'Eagle Award' as a world leader in the provision of air navigation services, announced on 9 November 1999. After much work, the air safety system would pass through the Year 2000 'millennium bug' barrier without incident, amid reports of contaminated fuel in planes. Source: Minister for Transport, Speech AS20/99. via aph.gov.au website

2005 Virgin Blue Boeing 737-7Q8 VH-VHI suffered sudden decompression at 40,000 feet on 9 November 2005 during a flight from Sydney to Melbourne . After an emergency descent the flight continued to its destination. The investigation included analysis of the crew and passenger responses to the depressurisation. Source: Flight International, 10 January 2006, p. 32. ATSB, Aviation Safety Investigation Report 200505683, 25 January 2006. via aph.gov.au website

2021 The first Qantas A380 to return to Australia after being placed in storage during the COVID-19 pandemic landed at Sydney Kingsford Smith airport at 3:11pm on 9 November 2021. VH-OQB landed in Sydney after a 19-hour ferry flight from a maintenance facility in Dresden, Germany ahead of its return to service in 2022. VH-OQB left Australia on 26 March 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, when it was ferried to LAX and on to storage in the USA. Source: Australian Aviation