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On approach to landing in reduced visibility just before night, a Sikorsky S-92A (G-LAWX) descended to within 28 ft of rising terrain close to a house. During the subsequent emergency climb at low indicated airspeed, engine …
The AAIB have sent a team to investigate an accident involving a glider.
Loss of power, deployment of ballistic parachute recovery system, and ditching near Calshot Split, Hampshire, 31 May 2020
A DJI Phantom 4 RTK unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was being operated in an automated flight mode when one of the four propellers detached whilst in-flight. The aircraft rapidly descended and struck the ground. No one was in…
The AAIB have sent a team to investigate an accident involving a light aircraft.
The AAIB has published a Formal Report into a serious incident involving an Airbus A321-211 (registration G-POWN) at London Gatwick Airport on 26 February 2020.
A Replica Royal Aircraft Factory BE2c aircraft (G-AWYI) was performing a flying display when it entered a descending right turn. The aircraft did not recover from the descent and struck the ground in a steep nose-down attitu…
While soaring along the Cotswold Ridge, a Schleicher ASH 25 E (G-CFST) became too low and collided with the top of a line of trees while the pilot was attempting to start the glider’s sustainer engine and trying to find a pl…
The aircraft, a Cessna C208B Super Cargomaster (N967FE) made a hard landing two thirds of the way along the runway and left the paved surface during the landing roll, 23 Sept 2020.
A failure of an alternator pinion roller bearing in the left accessory gearbox (LAGB) of an Airbus Helicopter EC175B (G-EMEB) occurred during a post-maintenance ground run following a scheduled replacement of the main gearbo…
Cabin crew of a Boeing 787-9 (G-ZBKF) saw smoke emanating from a passenger seat, 1 October 2020. It was discovered that a mobile phone had fallen down the side of the seat and had been crushed in the seat mechanism. The ca…
During a short flight from Jersey to Guernsey Airport, Channel Islands, the flight crew of a BAe ATP, experienced difficult, but manageable, issues with roll control, 18 August 2020.
A pilot was flying low behind the ridge at Cross Fell in the Pennines when the tail section of the glider began to oscillate rapidly and broke away from the glider. The glider, an SB-5E, pitched nose down and was heavily dis…
The pilot of a Scheibe SF25E (G-KDEY), was flying a series of circuits and was heading towards the airfield when the aircraft struck the ground in a field west of the airfield boundary, 23 March 2020.
G-BUWK experienced a loss of control in flight shortly after takeoff, resulting in a steep spiral descent. The aircraft struck the ground and a post-impact fire started shortly afterwards.
In windy conditions the crew performed a go-around from their first approach at Birmingham Airport. On the second approach the aircraft departed the runway to the left after touching down, 22 May 2020.
After completing routine maintenance on the approach lights to Runway 33 at Birmingham Airport, a ladder that had been used by airport engineering services technicians came out of the vehicle they were using and came to rest…
Two separate routine flights of a DJI Matrice 200 V1 unmanned aircraft terminated prematurely when the ballistic parachute recovery system activated unexpectedly, 21st September 2019 and 29th November 2019, Inverness.
Control of a prototype unmanned aircraft, an Alauda Airspeeder Mk II, was lost resulting in a fly-away and eventual crash, Goodwood Aerodrome, West Sussex, 4 July 2019.
The AAIB began investigating the increasing number of accidents and incidents to small unmanned aircraft systems in 2015.
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