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Air Accidents Investigation Branch reports

11,175 reports
  • Aircraft ditched following loss of engine power, approximately 7 nm south-east of Jersey Airport, 3 November 2022.

  • Severe vibration due to cracked propeller assembly, Sevenoaks, Kent, 22 March 2022.

  • Controlled flight into terrain, Alderney Airport, Guernsey, 9 September 2022.

  • Underslung load struck electricity pylon, Auchmacoy, Aberdeenshire, 17 September 2022.

  • Left main landing gear collapse, Exeter Airport, Devon, 3 January 2022.

  • Heating duct failure, Lydd Airport, Kent, 7 January 2022.

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

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

  • Stall and collision with tree, Usk Airfield, Monmouthshire, 13 June 2021.

  • Low battery voltage resulting in loss of control, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 29 June 2022.

  • Loss of battery power in flight, St Albans, Hertfordshire, 25 July 2022.

  • Heavy landing during simulated engine failure, Causeway Airfield, County Londonderry, 10 August 2022.

  • Loss of control on takeoff, Stoke Airfield, Kent, 27 July 2022.

  • Basket hit a fence on landing, Snetterton Racetrack east car park, Norwich, 14 August 2022.

  • Runway overrun after rejected takeoff, Wycombe Airpark, Buckinghamshire, 9 July 2022.

  • Landing gear collapse during landing, Dundee Airport, 1 June 2022.

  • The aircraft’s right main landing gear contacted the top of an articulated vehicle whilst on final approach, Finmere Microlight Site, Buckinghamshire, 24 August 2022.

  • Landing gear leg failed on landing, Fishburn Airfield, County Durham, 10 July 2022.

  • Main gear wheel hub fracture and fire, Manchester Airport, 17 March 2022.

  • Helicopter downwash detached a sign which injured a waiting passenger, West Usk Lighthouse, Newport, Gwent, 5 September 2022.

  • Elevator difficult to move on final approach, Belfast International Airport, 27 November 2021.

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

  • Hard landing following loss of tail rotor drive, Rhobell Fawr, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, 25 August 2021.

  • Failure after takeoff, near Henstridge Airfield, Somerset, 1 July 2022.

  • Control lost during an attempted takeoff, Farmers field near East Winch, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, 23 July 2022.

  • Rough running engine after takeoff and forced landing, Ludham Airfield, Norfolk, 19 June 2022.

  • Collision with trees during a go-around, Lower Upham Airfield, Wiltshire, 13 August 2022.

  • Canopy opened in flight, Field northwest of Kinglassie, near Fife Airport, 1 August 2022.

  • Lift propeller bolt failure and blade loss, Arran War Memorial Hospital, Lamlash, Isle of Arran, 6 May 2022.

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

  • Helicopter downwash caused flying debris injury to one person, Epsom, Surrey, 2 July 2022.

  • Fumes in flight deck during approach, London Heathrow Airport, 14 June 2022.

  • Aircraft struck trees during go-around, Luxters Farm Airstrip, Henley-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire, 30 August 2022.

  • Runway overrun after attempted go-around, Cranfield Airport, 3 September 2021.

  • Left landing gear failed on touchdown and aircraft nosed over, private farm strip, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 14 May 2022.

  • Loss of control after takeoff and engine failure, Plaistows Farm, St Albans, 30 January 2022.

  • Addendum to Record-only investigation.

  • Inadvertent Nose Landing Gear retraction while parked on stand, London Heathrow Airport Stand 583, 18 June 2021.

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

  • Loss of control and collision with railway track, near Kenyon Hall Farm Airfield, Warrington, Cheshire, 16 September 2021.

  • Struck roadside hedge while taking off, A6105, 3 km East of Duns, Scottish Borders, 5 March 2022.

  • Loss of control during takeoff, Fishburn Airfield, County Durham, 21 June 2022.

  • Loss of control from landing on disused runway, Chatteris Airfield, Cambridgeshire, 25 June 2022.

  • Early rotation during takeoff and subsequent stall, Nuthampstead Airfield, Hertfordshire, 25 November 2021.

  • Aircraft on battery power only following generator failure during one-engine inoperative training, 6 nm east of the Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, 14 September 2021.

  • Pitch trim failure on descent to Birmingham Airport, 7 June 2021.

  • Pitched onto nose during landing, Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire, 19 June 2022.

  • Unstable approach leading to a terrain warning, on approach to Oxford Airport 29 March 2022.

  • Incorrect thrust set during takeoff, Kuusamo Airport, Finland, 1 December 2021.

  • Unexpected pitch oscillations following selection of Transition Down AFCS SAR mode, near Heads of Ayr, South Ayrshire, 30 July 2021.