One of the important functions performed by the Department has been the
investigation of accidents and incidents with a view to improving air
safety. Many changes and innovations have come about thanks to the lessons
learned from terrible accidents over the years.
The Department has also played an important role in the promotion of air safety through its various publications, notably the Aviation Safety Digest and various technical publications.
Read
a history of Aviation Accident
Investigation in Australia
Consult an Index of Public Inquiries into Air Accidents from 1938
Accidents
Download a list of Australian civil aircraft accidents 1956-1968 (.pdf file)
This list was painstakingly compiled by Greg Thom with the assistance of Geoff Goodall and others.
Photos of a rare non-fatal mid-air collision between two RAAF Avro Ansons - 1940
The Day Concorde Lost its Rudder - 1989
View a C.A. Form 42 Report of Forced Landing and/or Accident c.1920s
View a C.A. Form 225 Air Safety Incident Report (the famous '225'), from 1954
View a C.A. Form 149A - Aircraft Accident Investigation Summary Report
View a C.A. Form 523 - Report on Investigation into Aircraft Accident
Read recollections of investigating the accident to Viscount VH-TVC at Botany Bay - 1961
Read recollections of investigating the accident to Viscount VH-RMI at Winton - 1966
The Aviation Safety Digest
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Read a history of the Aviation Safety Digest
Read about the accident that led to the formal definition of Mercy
Flights
Read about the Department's Bird Hazard Identification Unit
Read a history of the Printing and Publications Section
Index of the DCA Publications series
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Concerns about the safety of the aerial agriculture industry in the 1950s led to the issue of DCA Publication 34 Aerial Agriculture
Index of the 'DCA Technical Information Bulletins' series
Refer to an index of Films held by the Civil Aviation Historical Society
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