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A Special Bulletin has been issued about an accident involving a Boeing 787-8 (G-ZBJB) which occurred on 18 June 2021.
The AAIB have sent a team to investigate an accident involving a light aircraft that occurred near Goodwood in West Sussex
Shortly after takeoff the aircraft, a Cessna 185A Skywagon (G-BLOS), lost altitude and crashed into dense woodland, Pauncefoot Airstrip, Romsey, Hampshire, 7th October 2020.
Uncontained engine failure and helicopter destroyed by fire after landing. Long Marston, Warwickshire, 24 June 2020.
The AAIB Annual Safety Review 2020 has been published. It includes information on occurrences and the safety action taken or planned in response to AAIB investigations concluded in 2020.
A team has been sent to investigate an incident that occurred at London Heathrow Airport.
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.
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