We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Bring photo ID to vote Check what photo ID you'll need to vote in person in the General Election on 4 July.
Military aircraft accident summary: aircraft accident to RAF Hercules XV179
First published during the 2005 to 2010 Labour government
Links to military aircraft accident summaries (MAAS) available in The National Archives for the period 1979 to 2007.
Following a full RAF BOI into the causes of a serious military aircraft accident, a Military Aircraft Accident Summary is presented to Parliament.
First published during the 2001 to 2005 Labour government
Downwash from landing helicopter resulting in fatal injury to uninvolved person, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, Devon, 4 March 2022.
Published Ministry of Defence Service Inquiries (SIs), Board of Inquiries (BOIs) and Military Aircraft Accident Summaries (MAAS) and other inquiry reports.
Report into an accident involving a Grumman FM2, Wildcat, (G-KINL), aircraft nosed over on to its back on landing, Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, 6 July 2023
Crashed onto public road during air display, near Shoreham Airport, 22 August 2015.
Aircraft lost 22 nm north-north-west of Guernsey, 21 January 2019.
The AAIB Bulletin is a compilation of AAIB reports and is published on the second Thursday of the month.
Loss of control on departure, King Power Stadium, Leicester, 27 October 2018.
Loss of control during flight mode changes, field in South Scarle, Lincoln, 27 June 2023
Report into a fatal accident involving a Spitfire Mk 26B (G-CLHJ), near Enstone, Oxfordshire on 22 August 2023
Report into fatal accident involving a Piper PA-28-180 (G-AYUH), near Stanley Hall, Halstead Hall, Essex on 21 August 2023
Report into an accident involving an AW109SP (G-RAYN) which was destroyed after it unintentionally drifted rearwards and struck trees during a night takeoff, Nantclwyd Lodge, near Llanelidan, Denbighshire on 1 November 2022
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).