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Loss of power shortly after takeoff with subsequent stall and spin, Damyns Hall Aerodrome, Upminster, Essex, 4 April 2023

• Updated: 4 April 2024

Report into a serious incident involving a Beech 400A (N709EL). During landing at Newquay Airport, the brakes seized and mainwheel tyres deflated, 7 October 2022

• Updated: 4 April 2024

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is recruiting for a Principal Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations).

• Updated: 28 March 2024

The AAIB Annual Safety Review 2023 has been published. It includes information on occurrences and the safety action taken or planned in response to AAIB investigations concluded in 2023.

• Updated: 28 March 2024

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is recruiting for an Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations).

• Updated: 27 March 2024

A team of inspectors has been sent to Duxford to investigate an accident involving a light aircraft, 26 March 2024.

• Updated: 26 March 2024

Rudder control restriction during landing flare, ​Belfast International Airport​, ​7 March 2023​

• Updated: 7 March 2024

Flyaway following loss of electrical power, West Wales Airfield, Ceredigion, 6 March 2023

• Updated: 6 March 2024

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• Updated: 29 February 2024

Report into a serious incident involving an ATR 72-212A 600 (EI-GPN) which suffered a partial electrical failure and control difficulties during approach to land at Belfast City Airport on 19 September 2022

• Updated: 29 February 2024

Report into an accident involving an Extra NG (G-MIIL) which struck a building in Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire after an in-flight canopy failure on 2 April 2022

• Updated: 22 February 2024

Report into a serious incident involving an Ikarus C42 FB80 Bravo (G-CICF) after a lithium-ion main battery caught fire shortly after takeoff from Headcorn Aerodrome, Kent on 8 December 2022

• Updated: 22 February 2024

AAIB remembers all those affected by air accidents

• Updated: 19 February 2024

This statement provides an update on the AAIB investigation into a serious incident involving an EC175 B on the Elgin Platform in the North Sea on 17 February 2023.

• Updated: 16 February 2024

Report into a serious incident involving a Leonardo AW189 (G-MCGT) which sounded a terrain warning during a go-around due to rising ground ahead at Ballintoy Harbour, County Antrim on 26 July 2021.

• Updated: 15 February 2024

This statement provides an update on the AAIB investigation into an accident involving a Boeing 767-332(ER), N197DN, contained engine failure leading to a fuel leak, Prestwick Airport, 10 February 2023

• Updated: 9 February 2024

Report into a fatal accident involving an EV-97 teamEurostar UK (G-IFLE) at Otherton Airfield, Staffordshire, 4 June 2023

• Updated: 1 February 2024

Report into an accident involving a Piper PA-28-180 (G-AXSG), which experienced a runway excursion after landing due to the landing gear collapsing at St Mary’s Airport, Isles of Scilly, 7 April 2023

• Updated: 1 February 2024

Reporting an aircraft accident or serious incident on Wednesday 31 January 2024 between approximately 1000-1400 UK local time.

• Updated: 30 January 2024

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch are recruiting a Safety Data Analyst

• Updated: 26 January 2024