Aviation safety news

A Royal Air Force (RAF) Airbus A400M had had its flight deck ‘punctured’ by a bird strike whilst on operations Getafe Air Base in Spain. Images shared on the internet show blood & feathers both outside and inside the flightdeck area and a a large hole in the fuselage. Royal [read more]

A helicopter with two people onboard has crash-landed in a field and burst into flames after the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing. The aircraft came down near the Masons Arms Pub, Long Marston, Warwickshire just after midday. Local reports say both the pilot and passenger were able to [read more]

CCTV images that have been been widely shared show the moment that ground staff lose control a former Flybe Dash 8 at Aberdeen Airport last tuesday. The aircraft apparently had no braking ability and the video shows ground staff desperately trying to stop the aircraft rolling forward before it collides [read more]

The wife of First Lieutenant Kenneth “Kage” Allen has lead tributes after the US Air Force officially named Lt Allen as the pilot killed in Mondays F15 Crash in the North Sea. Hannah Allen described her husband as “perfect” adding that she had “never been treated with more love and [read more]

A US Air Force (USAF) F15 Eagle has crashed into the North sea off the Yorkshire Coast. A search and rescue operation was put into action near Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire. Later in the day, Col. Will Marshall, Commanding Officer of the 48th Fighter Wing confirmed that the body of [read more]

The pilot of a Cirrus SR22 (G-CTAM) was able to avoid a potentially fatal crash by deploying the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) earlier today. The aircraft was on a flight from Dunkeswell Airfield in Exeter to Lee-On-Solent before the pilot lost control of the aircraft for an unknown reason [read more]

A privately owned aircraft landed at a closed RAF Base without permission on Bank Holiday Monday according to the MOD’s Air safety information management system (ASIMS). The report filed says that a Pilatus PC12 N412MD took off from Fairoaks Airfield in Surrey and flew to RAF Valley on Anglesey. As [read more]

Local media in Pakistan is reporting that a Pakistan International Airways Airbus A320 has crashed in Karachi whilst attempting to land at Jinnah International Airport (KHI/OKPC). Flight PK8303 crashed in the Karachi’s Model-Colony district after reportedly developing a “technical fault”. Local reports suggest the aircraft hit 5 houses on the [read more]