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Whyalla Airlines Flight 904

Index Whyalla Airlines Flight 904

Whyalla Airlines Flight 904 was a scheduled commuter flight, operated by a Piper PA-31 Navajo which crashed while attempting to ditch in the Spencer Gulf, South Australia after suffering failures of both engines on the evening of 31 May 2000. [1]

32 relations: Adelaide Airport, Air traffic control, Air–fuel ratio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian dollar, Australian Senate, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Coroner, Crankshaft, Cylinder head, Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station, Eyre Peninsula, Flying (magazine), Gulf St Vincent, Illawarra Mercury, Lycoming Engines, Memorandum of understanding, Personal flotation device, Piper PA-31 Navajo, Piston, Probable cause, Sharp Airlines, South Australia, Spencer Gulf, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Water landing, Whyalla, Whyalla Airport, World Socialist Web Site, Yorke Peninsula.

Adelaide Airport

Adelaide Airport is the principal airport of Adelaide, South Australia and the fifth busiest airport in Australia, servicing just over eight million passengers in the financial year ending 30 June 2017.

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Air traffic control

Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.

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Air–fuel ratio

Air–fuel ratio (AFR) is the mass ratio of air to a solid, liquid, or gaseous fuel present in a combustion process.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Australian Senate

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

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Australian Transport Safety Bureau

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is Australia’s national transport safety investigator.

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Civil Aviation Safety Authority

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is the Australian national authority for the regulation of civil aviation.

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Coroner

A coroner is a person whose standard role is to confirm and certify the death of an individual within a jurisdiction.

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Crankshaft

A crankshaft—related to crank—is a mechanical part able to perform a conversion between reciprocating motion and rotational motion.

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Cylinder head

In an internal combustion engine, the cylinder head (often informally abbreviated to just head) sits above the cylinders on top of the cylinder block.

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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station

An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station is a distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that is triggered during an accident.

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Eyre Peninsula

The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia.

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Flying (magazine)

Flying, sometimes styled FLYING, is an aviation magazine published since 1927 and originally called ''Popular Aviation'' prior to 1942, as well as Aeronautics for a brief period.

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Gulf St Vincent

Gulf St Vincent is a large inlet of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia.

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Illawarra Mercury

The Illawarra Mercury is published from Monday to Friday with a weekend edition published on Saturday, in Wollongong, the third largest city in the State of New South Wales, Australia.

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Lycoming Engines

Lycoming Engines is a major American manufacturer of aircraft engines.

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Memorandum of understanding

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties.

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Personal flotation device

A personal flotation device (abbreviated as PFD; also referred to as a life jacket, life preserver, life belt, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid or flotation suit) is a piece of equipment designed to assist a wearer to keep afloat in water.

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Piper PA-31 Navajo

The Piper PA-31 Navajo is a family of cabin-class, twin-engined aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft for the general aviation market, most using Lycoming engines.

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Piston

A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms.

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Probable cause

In United States criminal law, probable cause is the standard by which police authorities have reason to obtain a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal or the issuing of a search warrant.

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Sharp Airlines

Sharp Airlines is a regional airline headquartered in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia and operating in the southern states of Australia.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Spencer Gulf

The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Water landing

A water landing is, in the broadest sense, a landing on a body of water.

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Whyalla

Whyalla, founded as "Hummocks Hill" and known by that name until 1916, is the third most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide and Mount Gambier.

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Whyalla Airport

Whyalla Airport is an airport located southwest of Whyalla, South Australia.

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World Socialist Web Site

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is an international socialist news site that is the online news and information center of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

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Yorke Peninsula

The Yorke Peninsula is a peninsula located north-west and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyalla_Airlines_Flight_904

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