Aviation safety news

The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has confirmed it is sending a team of investigators to the scene of an aircraft accident in South Wales. The accident happened around 11am this morning and South Wales Fire & Rescue confirmed it had attended the scene. Gwent Police, who are also at [read more]

The Air Accident Investigations branch has confirmed that it is sending a team to the site of a helicopter crash in North Yorkshire. According to North Yorkshire Fire Service. Firefighters from Boroughbridge, Knaresborough, Harrogate and Ripon responded to a helicopter that had crashed in a field near Aldborough just before [read more]

Dutch investigators have said that the Malaysian Airlines 777 that was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 was shot down by a missile provided by Russian Forces. The investigators have studied video footage of the missile launch which they say proves that the missile belonged to Russia’s 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade who had [read more]

The annual Airport Operators Association (AOA) Airport Safety Week is underway across the UK with events taking place at 50 UK airports. The event is consists of a week-long series of events to promote the importance of safety to airport teams, visitors and customers. Events can range from tours of the [read more]

Cambridgeshire Police have confirmed that one man has died in a paragliding accident near Peterborough yesterday. The two paragliders cam down in a field following the collision which left the other pilot with serious injuries. At least one of the paragliders was motorised. Cambridgeshire Police said the incident occurred around 08:40. [read more]

A former French Air Force plane has carried out an emergency landing on a Devon beach. The Morane-Saulnier MS.315, No 354, is understood to be G-BZNK (not pictured) which was built in 1932 and operated with the French Air Force before passing into private hands as F-BZNK. According to local media, [read more]

The UK’s leading air traffic services provider, NATS has successfully introduced its Electronic Flight Progress Strips (EFPS) system to Farnborough Airport (FAB/EGLF). The NATS “Hub and Spoke” system incorporates Approach and Radar services along with Farnborough’s Lower Airspace Radar Service (LARS). Farnborough saw 27,000 movements last year and with 100,000 flights [read more]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is to issue an airworthiness directive that will require airlines to carry out inspections on CFM56 engines on Boeing 737’s. The move comes as a result of an engine failure on a Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday which killed one passenger although the FAA has been working [read more]