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1,404 reports
Of Type Bulletin - Field investigation
  • Serious injury to cabin crew, during descent to Manchester Airport, 14 January 2017.

  • Descended into the sea, two miles north-east of Skipness, Kintyre peninsula, 25 May 2017.

  • Unsuccessful forced landing following engine failure, MOD Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 14 May 2017.

  • Smoke and fumes after departure, Isle of Man Airport, 31 March 2017.

  • No 2 engine shut down due to loss of oil pressure, during descent into Manchester Airport, 26 May 2017.

  • Struck hedge and caught fire at the end of the runway, Grove Farm, Wolvey, Warwickshire, 28 September 2017.

  • Main landing gear collapse due to upper side-brace failure, Lydd Airport, Kent, 1 August 2017.

  • Overrun on landing, Gorda Airport, British Virgin Islands (BVI), 11 February 2017.

  • Landing gear failed to lower, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset, 27 May 2017.

  • Aircraft landed with crosswind component of 40 kt (maximum demonstrated crosswind component is 19.4 kt), Isle of Man (Ronaldsway) Airport, 23 February 2017.

  • Stick shaker activation, during the climb after departure from Edinburgh Airport, 5 June 2017.

  • Having entered IMC, descended and struck the Summit of Rhinog Fawr, Snowdonia, 29 March 2017.

  • Departure from controlled flight, Luffenhall, Hertfordshire, 20 June 2017.

  • Loss of elevator control during launch, Currock Hill Airfield, Northumbria, 8 April 2017...

  • Attempted circuit following launch failure, Brentor Airfield, Devon, 4 December 2016.

  • Left wing failed in flight, near Builth Wells, Powys, 18 September 2016.

  • Cabin depressurisation and emergency descent, 19 March 2017.

  • Emergency evacuation at parking stand after APU failure filled cabin with smoke, London Heathrow Airport, 26 June 2016.

  • Loss of control, 5 nm north of reporting point ORTAC, 21 December 2016.

  • APU bleed air duct leak, East Midlands Airport, Leicestershire, 3 February 2017.

  • Loss of terrain separation, on approach to Hong Kong International Airport, 15 November 2016.

  • Main gear shimmy on landing on Runway 25 at Belfast International (Aldergrove) Airport, 4 October 2016.

  • Partial power loss after takeoff and loss of control, Apperknowle, Derbyshire, 28 May 2017.

  • Loss of power and unsuccessful forced landing, 1 nm north of Dinton, Wiltshire, 8 July 2016.

  • Struck a tree during go-around at Topcroft Farm Airstrip, near Hardwick Airfield, Norfolk, 2 October 2016.

  • Controlled flight into terrain, near Aston Rowant Nature Reserve, Oxfordshire, 15 January 2017.

  • Mid-air collision, 7.5 nm south of Leicester Airport, 4 December 2016.

  • Loss of control on takeoff, Bourn Airfield, Cambridgeshire, 17 October 2016.

  • In-flight loss of engine access panel, on departure from Manchester Airport, 14 December 2016.

  • Diversion due to smoke in cockpit, 28 November 2016.

  • Inadvertent flap retraction, on departure from Bristol Airport, 30 June 2016.

  • Engine ingested balloon fragment causing loss of power, ditched by beach, Herne Bay, Kent, 14 August 2016.

  • Stall/spin while manoeuvring in the circuit, Shifnal Airfield, Shropshire, 30 May 2016

  • Tail boom struck by main rotor blades, Breighton Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 17 July 2016

  • Landing gear collapse on landing, Sywell Aerodrome, Northampton, 15 September 2016

  • Nose landing gear torque link separation whilst taxiing, Manchester Airport, 19 October 2016.

  • Loss of collective pitch control resulting in a forced landing, Bishopstone, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, 23 September 2016.

  • Loss of control and deployment of ballistic recovery system, 2.5 nm NW of Oban Airport, Argyll, 2 August 2016.

  • Loss of control on takeoff, near Burrows Lane, Middle Stoke, Kent, 20 March 2016.

  • Nose landing gear collapse, Sleap Airfield, Shropshire, 19 July 2016.

  • Entered a spin and impacted a ploughed field near Whitwell, North Yorkshire, 30 April 2016.

  • Wake vortex encounter during takeoff, Shoreham Airport, West Sussex, 18 July 2016.

  • Pilot incapacitation, Turweston Aerodrome, Buckinghamshire, 28 July 2016.

  • Uncontrolled dive with sustainer engine deployed, Moundsmere, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, 21 July 2016.

  • Nose gear leg failed whilst taxiing, Old Warden Aerodrome, Bedfordshire, 16 July 2016.

  • Pitch control difficulty after departing Manchester Airport in icing conditions, diverted to East Midlands Airport, 4 March 2016

  • Control restriction, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, 29 December 2015

  • Incorrect takeoff performance calculation, Malaga Airport, Spain, 14 April 2016.

  • Reduction in aircraft controllability, near Manchester, 6 November 2015.

  • Aircraft ditched after reporting engine problems, English Channel, 1.2 nm from Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex, 6 August 2016.