An Aero Commander 690 was flying as a regular public transport flight from Williamtown to Lord Howe Island, but failed to arrive. An extensive air and sea search failed to locate the aircraft or its nine occupants (eight passengers and the pilot). Only a small number of pieces of the aircraft were found floating on the sea surface.
Report: https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/24362/aair199402804_001.pdf
Life member of Safeskies from 2020
Most recently, Dr Sue Burdekin was the Aviation Program Coordinator in ADFA’s School of Engineering and Information Technology. She is a highly credentialled academic and researcher in human factors; and has been a senior lecturer in human factors and aviation safety since 2001. She has had experience in GA management and is a commercial pilot. She is a committee member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a member of the European Association for Aviation Psychology, the Australian Aviation Psychology Association, the International Society of Air Safety Investigation, the Australian Women Pilots’ Association (a former state president), and a former board member of Safeskies.
She and her partner, Dr Robert (Rob) Lee, were regular speakers at Safeskies, bringing their wide-ranging and considerable human factors expertise to the conferences.