Aviation safety news

A near-miss took place over West London this afternoon between two jetliners bound for London’s Heathrow airport. The incident occurred just before 5pm when a Malaysian Airlines Airbus A350-900 (9M-MAG), MH4, come into conflict with a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 Dreamliner (G-VOWS) operating VS251. The Malaysian Airbus from Kuala Lumpar [read more]

Two people are now known to have been killed in a light aircraft crash near Beverly, East Yorkshire. The crash happened last night around 19:30 after a local farm watch member reported a plane going down sparking a search involving Police, Coastguard and Fire and Rescue services. Humberside Police confirmed [read more]

Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) save lives, especially in rural or remote locations where professional help will take longer to arrive. This isn’t theory, its fact and its the reason why you are starting to see AEDs in more and more places such as villages and public spaces. An AED, as [read more]

Today is the anniversary of a mid-air collision over Yugoslavia, a crash that is one of the worst air disasters to involve a British airline, and the 3rd deadliest mid-air collision in history. It is also the only fatal accident in the history of British Airways. On the 10th September [read more]

Horse trainer Richard Hannon was lucky to escape injury when the aircraft he was flying in crashed on landing at Haydock race course. The chartered Piper Cherokee Six skidded out of control after landing on a wet grass air strip and collided with an empty helicopter. As well as Richard [read more]

A pilot of a light aircraft has suffered a head injury after being forced to ditch his aircraft into the sea in Whitesands Bay near St Davids, Wales. It is understood that the Piper PA-28 Cherokee G-BAJR hit waves as it ditched into the sea near the shoreline and witnesses [read more]

The North West Air Ambulance was called to Manchester Airport today after a crash between an aircraft tug and another vehicle left one person trapped. The Tug is understood to have collided with a catering truck leaving the tug driver with serious leg injuries according to an eyewitness who did [read more]

An airport worker has stolen a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 from Seattle Tacoma airport in an apparent suicide. The aircraft belonging to Alaska Airlines subsidiary Horizon Air was stolen by a mechanic who ATC communications identified as “Rich” before taking off from the airport without permission. The man then flew [read more]