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During an experimental flight of an aircraft with an electrical propulsion system, with electrical power from hydrogen fuel cells, it experienced a loss of power to the electrical motors. A forced landing was carried out cl…
Helping get new employees into the aviation industry quickly and without compromising security to meet the surge in demand for flights.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The 22 measures the government is taking to support the aviation industry and minimise passenger disruption.
What government is doing to support the aviation industry and give holidaymakers certainty ahead of the first summer free of travel restrictions.
On 28 June 2022 it will be 100 years since the first regulations were issued in the UK to formalise the investigation of aircraft accidents. Since then the regulations have been amended and revised numerous times in 1925, 19…
On 28 June 1922 the first regulations were issued in the UK to formalise the investigation of aircraft accidents. One hundred years on many of the original principles remain today.
New regulations on airport slots will help to minimise flight disruption ahead of the summer peak.
The AAIB has sent a team to Burton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire.
Inadvertent Nose Landing Gear retraction whilst parked on stand, London Heathrow Airport Stand 583, 18 June 2021.
Strategic risk group set up to identify possible interventions to alleviate flight disruptions and improve the resilience of the aviation sector.
Fatal accident near Goodwood Aerodrome, Sussex, 30 June 2021.
Engine partial power loss after takeoff followed by attempted turnback, Teesside International Airport, 25 September 2021.
During a flight from Edinburgh Airport to London Heathrow the aircraft experienced severe inertial reference system drift in flight, 6 August 2021.
The AAIB Annual Safety Review 2021 has been published. It includes information on occurrences and the safety action taken or planned in response to AAIB investigations concluded in 2021.
Grob G103C Twin III Acro, G-CFWC, Usk Airfield, Monmouthshire, on 13 June 2021.
Embraer ERJ 170-100 LR, G-CIXW, on descent into Birmingham Airport on 7 June 2021.
Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps has met with senior aviation leaders to discuss the exceptional disruption seen across UK airports.
The AAIB has sent a team to East Lothian.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is recruiting an Operations Officer
A Hawker Sea Fury T Mk 20 (G-RNHF), was being positioned for a landing following a low engine oil pressure indication. As the aircraft began the base turn, the engine seized suddenly and the pilot had to make a forced landin…
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