Up to four people are believed to have escaped serious injury earlier today when their helicopter crashed in a field in Kent. A picture, widely shared across social media, shows a Robinson R44 helicopter on its side in a field with significant damage. The crash happened at around 10am with [read more]
A member of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Snowbirds has been tragically killed following a crash shortly after take-off yesterday from Kamloops airport. A video of the accident shows a pair of Canadair CT114 Tutors, the type used by the Snowbirds take off before one pitches up before appearing [read more]
Swansea City Football Club has released a statement condemning an image mocking the air crash which killed Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala. The club said that it was “aware of the disgraceful image currently circulating on social media ahead of Sunday’s South Wales derby in relation to the sad death [read more]
The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has said it is sending a team to the scene of an accident involving a Glider in Monmouthshire. It is understood that the Glider flipped over during take-off and the pilot, the sole occupant, received serious injuries but according to Gwent Police, these are [read more]
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority has said that the Diamond DA62 which crashed in Dubai last month was following too close to a landing Airbus A350 meaning Wake Turbulence was almost certainly a significant factor in the accident. The aircraft, which was carrying out checks of [read more]
Three people escaped with apparently minor injuries after a light aircraft came down and burst into flames on the A40 between Raglan and Abergavenny. South Wales Fire and Rescue said they were called to reports of an aircraft crash at 11:03 this morning and that crews from Abergavenny, Blaenavon & [read more]
The Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has confirmed that one body is visible in the wreckage of the Piper Malibu N264DB that was found on the seabed near the channel islands yesterday. The plane went missing on Monday 21st January with pilot David Ibbotson and Premier League Footballer, Emiliano Sala [read more]
Rescuers have said there is little hope that anyone is still alive from the Piper Malibu aircraft that went missing near Alderney in the Channel Islands on Sunday. The aircraft, a Piper PA-46-310P Malibu registration N264DB, was flying from Nantes to Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) when it went missing at 8:30pm [read more]
The search has continued today for a light aircraft that went missing around 8 miles north-west of Alderney yesterday evening at around 8:30pm. The aircraft, understood to be a Piper PA-46 Malibu, left Nantes, France yesterday evening bound for Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF). It disappeared from radar at around 8:30pm near [read more]
The 8th January 1989 was a Sunday, a day of rest for a country still coming to terms with the disaster at Lockerbie, Scotland where, just 18 days earlier, a Pan Am Boeing 747 was blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb killing 270 people. But at 8:24pm, [read more]
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