Safety is no accident

Safety is no accident screen title.

Documentary (1962)

Production:
Frank Bagnall (Productor)
Joe Scully (Director)
Leo Elia (Camera)
R.G. Pearse (Camera)
Godon Wraxall (Sound Engineer)

The story of civil aviation in Australia and the work that is being done to maintain one of the highest safety records in the world.

Also from this series:
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit

Boeing 707-138B

Taking-off from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).

Boeing 707-138B of Qantas.

Unidentified Aircraft

Not found yet, between Vickers Viscount, De Havilland Comet or Lockheed L-188A Electra?
At Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).

De Havilland DH106 Comet 4

Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery.(1955-1965)

De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 of B.O.A.C-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Lockheed L-188A Electra

Orange wings tip, it's a TAA's L-188A Electra.

Lockheed L-188A Electra of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Lockheed L-188A Electra

Ansett-ANA operated 4 L-188 Electra from 1959 until 1983.

Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.

Another one followed by a TAA's L-188A Electra branded The Nation's Jetline.

Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.

Registration VH-RMC, c/n 1044. First flight 1960 as N1883. Delivered new to Ansett-ANA in February 1960, registration VH-RMC. Converted to cargo in May 1972. Sold to TPI International Airways in September 1984. Written off at Kansas City in January 1985, crashed on approach.

Reg.VH-RMC Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.

Various Aircraft

At Melbourne (Essendon) Airport (MEB/YMEN).
1 - Vickers Viscount of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines in Dayglow livery with orange tail and wing tips (1960-1962).
2 - Lockheed L-188A Electra of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines in Standard livery with white tail-blue stripe (1963-1972).
3 - De Havilland DH106 Comet 4 of B.O.A.C-British Overseas Airways Corporation.
4 - Lockheed L-188A Electra of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines in Standard livery.
5 - Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.
6 - Vickers Viscount of Ansett-ANA.

Various aircraft at Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).

1 - Vickers Viscount of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.
2 - Lockheed L-188A Electra of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.
3 - Lockheed L-188A Electra of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.
4 - Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.
5 - Vickers Viscount of Ansett-ANA.

Various aircraft at Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).

1 - Unknown Douglas DC-6 or DC-7.
2 - Unknown Douglas DC-3 or C-47.
3 - Unknown aircraft.
4 - Vickers Viscount of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Various aircraft at Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).

1 - Unknown Douglas DC-3 or C-47.
2 - Unknown aircraft.
3 - Vickers Viscount of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.
4 - Unknown Fokker F27 Friendship.

Various aircraft at Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).

Bell 47J-2 Ranger

Registration VH-THG, c/n 1836. On service between City of Melbourne Yarra Heliport to Essendon Airport by TAA-Trans Australia Airlines helicopter division TAA HeliCab from 1961 until crashed at Essendon the 18 August 1965(not verified).

Reg.VH-THG Bell 47J-2 Ranger of TAA HeliCab.

At Melbourne (Essendon) Airport (MEB/YMEN).

Reg.VH-THG Bell 47J-2 Ranger of TAA HeliCab.

Cessna 180 Skywagon

Cessna 180 Skywagon.

Cessna 180 Skywagon

Cessna 180 Skywagon.

Cessna 180 Skywagon

Cessna 180 Skywagon.

Polluter...

Cessna 180 Skywagon.

Douglas C-54B Skymaster

Douglas C-54B-DO Cargomaster of Ansett-ANA.

Lockheed L-188A Electra & Fokker F27 Friendship

At Melbourne (Essendon) Airport (MEB/YMEN).
Another TAA's L-188A Electra in the background left.

Lockheed L-188A Electra The Nation's Jetline of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

TAA's Fokker F27-100 Friendship to the left.

Lockheed L-188A Electra The Nation's Jetline and Fokker F27-100 Friendship of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Fokker F27-100 Friendship of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Lockheed L-188A Electra

No orange wing tips, it must belongs to an Ansett-ANA aircraft.

Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.

Beechcraft B55 Baron

Beechcraft B55 Baron of Connellan Airways.

TAA's Fokker F27-100 Friendship in the background.

Beechcraft B55 Baron of Connellan Airways.

Fokker F27-100 Friendship

Fokker F27-100 Friendship of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Fokker F27-100 Friendship & Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Unknown airline C-47 Skytrain in the background.

Fokker F27-100 Friendship of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines and Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

Fokker F27-100 Friendship

Beech Baron already listed above in the background.

Fokker F27-100 Friendship of Department of Civil Aviation.

In flight, but still a partial view.

Fokker F27-100 Friendship of Department of Civil Aviation.

De Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover Mk.2

Australian built trimotor version of the De Havilland DH104 Dove.

De Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover Mk.2 of the Commonwealth Department of Health Australia - Northern Territory Medical Service.

Piaggio P.166

Ansett-MAL operated 5 aircraft of the type on Papua New Guinea routes.

Piaggio P.166 of Ansett-MAL.

De Havilland DH106 Comet 4

On approach to Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY) runway.
Blue Tail Twin Stripe livery.(1955-1965)

De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 of B.O.A.C-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Tail fin of USAF's Douglas C-124 Globemaster II in the background.

De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 of B.O.A.C-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

TAI's DC-8 to the left (listed below).

De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 of B.O.A.C-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Douglas DC-8-33

B.O.A.C's Comet 4 already listed above is taxiing behind.
Registration F-BIUY, c/n 45569/80. Delivered new to TAI-Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux in July 1960. Transferred after merge into UTA-Union de Transports Aériens in January 1963. Sold to Air Afrique in September 1965, registered TU-TCE. Sold back to UTA in June 1968. Leased to TAE-Trabajos Aereos y Enlaces, registered EC-CCN in March 1973. Written off and broken un at Son Sant Joan, Palma de Mallorca (LEPA/PMI) in July 1984.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg. F-BIUY Douglas DC-8-33 of TAI-Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux.

Boeing 707 in the foreground.

Reg. F-BIUY Douglas DC-8-33 of TAI-Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux.

Boeing 707-121 & Lockheed L-188C Electra

Final taxiing at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY) beside a Lockheed L-188C Electra of TEAL-Tasman Empire Airways Limited.

Boeing 707-121 of Pan American World Airways and Lockheed L-188C Electra TEAL JET PROP of TEAL-Tasman Empire Airways Limited.

Boeing 707-121

From the terminal of Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY), not necessarily the same aircraft than the one just above.

Boeing 707-121 of Pan American World Airways.

Boeing 707-138B

Un-boarding from a 707-138B of Qantas wearing 1st version of V-JET livery, with AUSTRALIA'S OVERSEAS AIRLINE titles.

Boeing 707-138B of Qantas.

Boarding the Boeing 707-138B.

Boeing 707-138B of Qantas.

Illegible registration.

Boeing 707-138B of Qantas.

Douglas C-124A Globemaster II

Douglas DC-8 of TAI-Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux to the right in the background.

Douglas C-124A Globemaster II of the USAF.

Douglas DC-8-33

Title NOLEGGIATO DALL ALITALIA that means chartered by Alitalia.
To the right, nose of 707-138B from Qantas already mentionned above.

Reg. F-BIUY Douglas DC-8-33 of TAI chartered by Alitalia.

Douglas DC-8-32 of KLM taxiing behind.

Reg. F-BIUY Douglas DC-8-33 of TAI chartered by Alitalia.

Douglas DC-8-32

Douglas DC-8-32 of KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines.

Vickers 816 Viscount

Passing by to the right, the Douglas DC-8-32 of KLM already listed above.
To the left, tail fin of TAA's inner designation Super Viscount in The Nation's Jetline livery, Dayglow colours.
Registration VH-TVQ, c/n 434. Delivered new to TAA in June 1959, registered VH-TVQ named McDouall Stuart. Sold to Far Eastern Air Transport in April 1971, registered B-2027. Leased to MNA-Merpati Nusantara Airlines in May 1975, registered PK-MVL named Sumba. Return to Far Eastern Air Transport in March 1983. Sold to Mandala Airlines in 1986, registered PK-MVU named Nias. Crashed whilst landing at Ambon's Pattimura Airport (AMQ/WAPP),Indonesia in July 1992.

Reg.VH-TVQ Vickers 816 Viscount McDouall Stuart of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Boeing 707-138

On runway for take-off at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).
She wears the Red Stripe livery of 1959-1961, therefore must be the 707-138 original version fitted with Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojet that would be converted to 707-138B in late 1961, with JT3D turbofan and new V-JET livery.

Boeing 707-138 of Qantas.

In the air with smoke and some decibels...

Boeing 707-138 of Qantas.

Lockheed L-188A Electra

Lockheed L-188A Electra The Nation's Jetline of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Lockheed L-188A Electra

At Ansett-ANA's workshop. These red/white/blue stripes on Allison 501-D13 turboprops engine cowling desappeared in 1966.

Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.

Ansett-ANA's Vickers 720 or 747 Viscount in the background.

Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett-ANA.

Lockheed L-188A Electra

Registration VH-TLC, c/n 1147. Delivered new to TAA in August 1960, registered VH-TLC named Charles Sturt. Sold to Concare Aircraft Leasing in June 1972, registered N188LC. Leased to Holiday Airlines in July 1972, then to Transcontinental Air Transport in December 1972. Returned to Concare Aircraft Leasing in May 1973. Bought by California Airmotive Corp. in December 1973. Sold to American Jet Industries in May 1974, converted to freighter Lockheed L-188AF Electra in April 1975. Sold to TACA International Airlines in May 1976, registered YS-06C. Back to USA in September 1985 as N188LC again for Galaxy Airlines. Bought by Orion Aircraft Sales in July 1987, then by Nevada Aircraft Sales in January 1988, then Cardinal Corp. in April 1988. Leased to Palma de Espino S.A. in November 1988. Sold to ATSA-Aero Transporte S.A. in December 1988, registered OB-M1328. Chartered by LAM-Linhas Aereas Mocambique in March 1989. Returned to ATSA as OB-1328 in November 1989. Sold to LAMA Colombia (Lineas Aereas de la Amazonica) in August 1991, registered HK-3642X. Sold to APEL Express (Aerolineas Petroleras del Llano/Transapel) in February 1992, registered HK-3706. Sold to Mex-Jet Cargo in October 2001, registered XA-AEG. The company was renamed VigoJet in 2005. Wfu in October 2006. Scrapped at Tocumen International, Panama City (MPTO/PTY) in 2007.

Reg.VH-TLC Lockheed L-188A Electra The Nation's Jetline Charles Sturt of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

Lockheed L-188A Electra

Registration VH-TLB, c/n 1069. Delivered new to TAA in July 1959, registered VH-TLB named John Gilbert. Sold to Concare Aircraft Leasing in January 1972, registered N188LB, then bought by Transair Corporation in the same year. Leased to Royal Air Lao in May 1972, registered XW-PKB named Tiao Khoun Boulom. Returned to Transair Corporation in July 1974. Leased to Mandala Airlines in 1974, registered PK-RLX named Pangeran Diponegoro. Sold to American Jet Industries in 1975, returned as N188LB. Converted to freighter Lockheed L-188AF Electra in April 1976. Sold to TACA International Airlines in June 1976, registered YS-07C. Damaged beyond repair at San Salvador International (MSLP/SAL) in February 1980.

Reg.VH-TLB Lockheed L-188A Electra The Nation's Jetline John Gilbert of TAA-Trans Australia Airlines.

De Havilland DH106 Comet 4

Parked on the tarmac of Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD/YSSY).

De Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 of B.O.A.C-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster

VH-TLB already mentionned above rises from the runway in the background.

Douglas C-54 Skymaster of Ansett-ANA.

Vickers 720 Viscount

VH-TLB Taking off in the background.
Tail fin of Viscount from Ansett-ANA in the foreground.
Registration VH-TVF, c/n 049. Delivered new to TAA in April 1955, registered VH-TVF named Ernest Giles, then later renamed Peter Warburton. Leased to Ansett-ANA in September 1958. Returned to TAA in September 1966. Sold to Keegan Aviation in October 1967. Wfu at Southend Airport (SEN/EGMC) in February 1970.

Reg.VH-TVF Vickers 720 Viscount of Ansett-ANA.

Fokker F27-200 Friendship

VH-TLB in the sky background.
Foreground F27-200 Friendship from Ansett-ANA.
Registration VH-FNE, c/n 10145. First flight in January 1960, registered PH-FBK. Delivered new to Ansett-ANA in March 1960, registerd VH-FNE named Sir Henry Abel Smith. Transferred to Air Queensland in February 1961. Leased to Airlines of New South Wales in November 1966. Returned to Ansett-ANA in October 1968. Leased to MMA-MacRobertson-Miller Airlines from March 1969 until July 1970. Returned to Ansett-ANA. Detroyed by fire in hangar at melbourne-Essendon Airport (YMEN/MEB) in March 1971.