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562 reports
In Category General aviation - fixed wing
or Sport aviation and balloons
Of Type Bulletin - Field investigation
  • Cozy Mk IV (G-BYLZ), loss of engine power on final approach, Gloucestershire Airport, 18 March 2025

  • Spitfire MK 26B (G-ENAA), yawed and rolled left during takeoff causing it to strike the ground, Enstone Airfield, Oxfordshire, 28 July 2024

  • Cessna T210M (N761JU), loss of control on takeoff, Leeds East Airport, 11 April 2024

  • Discus B (G-DJMD) and Standard Cirrus (G-DCTB), collided while landing at Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield, Northamptonshire, 25 May 2024

  • Loss of control shortly after taking off in conditions of reduced visibility, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1 September 2024

  • Aircraft pitched down from final approach and struck trees before coming to rest on the A419 near Aston Down Airfield, Gloucestershire, 27 August 2024

  • Loss of control in-flight, Barlavington, Sussex, 5 June 2024

  • Loss of control after takeoff, Croft Farm Airstrip (Defford Airfield), Worcester, 27 August 2024

  • Loss of control on initiating a go-around, Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire, 26 March 2024

  • Aircraft struck the ground during low level aerobatics, Spanhoe Airfield, Northamptonshire, 13 July 2024

  • Rotorsport UK Cavalon (G-CKYT), in-flight structural failure, farmland between Avoch and Munlochy, 12 November 2020

  • Loss of engine power and forced landing, 1.5 miles from Prestwick Airport, 23 April 2024

  • Vans RV-6A (G-RVSH), aircraft became inverted during landing, Truro Airfield, Cornwall, 3 September 2023

  • Piper PA-28-180 (G-AYUH), aircraft departed controlled flight after entry into cloud, Stanley Hall, near Halstead, Essex, 21 August 2023

  • Grumman FM2, Wildcat (G-KINL), aircraft nosed over on to its back on landing, Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, 6 July 2023

  • Spitfire Mk 26B (G-CLHJ), loss of control, Enstone, Oxfordshire, 22 August 2023

  • Jabiru UL-450 (G-CDFK), loss of power shortly after takeoff with subsequent stall and spin, Damyns Hall Aerodrome, Upminster, Essex, 4 April 2023

  • Schleicher ASW 24 (G-CHBB), loss of control during failed aerotow, Dunstable Airfield, Bedfordshire, 16 August 2023

  • Amateur-built balloon (DB-6R), G-CMFS, balloon envelope collapsed in-flight, fell from height and struck the ground, Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, 25 June 2023

  • Ventus-2CT (G-KADS) and E1 Antares (G-CLXG), Midair collision, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 17 August 2023

  • Aircraft canopy failed in-flight, Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, 2 April 2022

  • In-flight battery fire, Headcorn Aerodrome, Kent, 8 December 2022

  • Stall during turn onto final, Otherton Airfield, Staffordshire, 4 June 2023

  • Main landing gear failure, St Mary's Airport, Isles of Scilly, 7 April 2023

  • Rearward movement of hang-point resulting in pitch control difficulties, Lundy Island Airfield, Bristol Channel, 17 May 2023

  • Aircraft struck terrain, Bradda Head, near Port Erin, Isle of Man, 17 July 2023.

  • Aircraft took off inadvertently and struck the ground shortly afterwards , East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian, 1 June 2022.

  • Tow rope disconnection from glider after takeoff, Troed yr Harn, Talgarth, Powys, 12 August 2022.

  • Glider released from aerotow shortly after takeoff and pitched down, striking the ground at high speed, near Pulborough West Sussex, 24 September 2022.

  • Aircraft collided with trees whilst attempting a go-around, Near Jackrell’s Farm airstrip, Horsham, West Sussex, 6 October 2022.

  • Pilot descended within 400 ft of terrain while attempting to fly an ILS approach in IMC, at 9 nm on final approach into Exeter Airport, 22 October 2022.

  • Elevator control became disconnected inflight, Popham Airfield, Hampshire, on 27 March 2022.

  • Engine stopped in flight, Steyning Valley, South Downs Way, East Sussex, 11 February 2022.

  • Lost control whilst flying a steep turn at low altitude, Newtownards Airfield, County Down, 19 July 2022.

  • Bounced on landing and rolled onto its side, Harringe Court Farm, Ashford, Kent, 6 August 2022.

  • Accident during aerobatic manoeuvring, Shobdon Airfield, Herefordshire, 26 August 2022.

  • Loss of control during diversion in poor weather, Lower Colley Farm, Buckland St Mary, Somerset, 12 August 2021.

  • Bounced on landing and stalled, Beccles Aerodrome, Suffolk, 24 March 2022.

  • Unsuccessful go-around, Cotswold Airport, Gloucestershire, 4 August 2022.

  • Engine failure in flight, approximately 4 miles NNE of Retford Gamston Airport, Nottinghamshire, 1 August 2021.

  • Instructor suffered a fatal heart attack inflight, Blackpool Airport, 29 June 2022.

  • Field landing causing spinal injury, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, 7 July 2022.

  • Forced landing following engine failure, near Enfield, Greater London, 2 April 2022.

  • Disappeared from radar whilst crossing the English Channel, approximately 20 nm west of Le Touquet, 2 April 2022.

  • Loss of power during flying display and ditching off Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, 4 September 2021.

  • Rearward movement of pilot’s seat leading to loss of control in flight, Breighton Airfield, Selby, North Yorkshire, 14 November 2021.

  • Aircraft collided during landing at Dunkeswell Aerodrome, Devon, 20 August 2021.

  • Control restriction leading to stall on takeoff, Cranfield Airport, 12 December 2020.

  • Propulsion system failure and forced landing, one mile north of Cranfield Airport, 29 April 2021.

  • Loss of power after takeoff, Teesside International Airport, 25 September 2021.