Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
Ten of the 49 pilots from Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways who attempted an oral test on handling ATR 72 aircraft in the event of engine failure have been suspended from flying.