Guidance

Aircraft accidents: guidance for emergency services and airfield operators

How the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) investigates aircraft accident and serious incidents.

• From: Air Accidents Investigation Branch
• Published: 31 December 2008

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Aircraft accidents: guidance for the Police, emergency services and airfield operators

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Details

This guidance has been prepared to assist the police, fire and other emergency services, and those involved in airfield operations and contingency planning.

It describes:

• the role of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB)
• AAIB’s obligation to investigate an aircraft accident or serious incident
• AAIB’s authority
• the legal powers of an Inspector of Air Accidents
• AAIB inspector’s authority to impound an aircraft
• the relationship between judicial inquiries and AAIB investigations
• liaison between AAIB and police inquiries
• what a reportable aircraft accident is
• responsibilities for reporting an aircraft accident

Report an aviation accident or serious incident.

Published 31 December 2008