Aviation safety news

A UPS freighter has crashed while taking off from Louisville, Kentucky hitting several ground premises including a petroleum recycling business sparking a massive fire. UPS flight 2976 was being operated by a McDonnel Douglas MD11 and was bound for Honolulu, Hawaii. Officials have confirmed 12 people have been killed in [read more]

A Robinson R44 helicopter crashed on the Isle of Wight earlier today, with police confirming three people died in the accident. The aircraft was conducting flying lessons before crashing into a field near Shanklin at around 09:20 BST, with witnesses describing seeing the helicopter spiralling out of control. A fourth [read more]

Flights have now restarted at Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) after having been suspended earlier after a landing incident involving a Beech B200 Super King Air which left it stranded on the runway. The aircraft, G-NIAA, was operating a flight from Birmingham to Belfast when it developed an issue with its landing [read more]

Today marks 25 years since the tragic crash of Air France Flight 4590 — the only fatal accident involving the iconic Concorde. On 25 July 2000, the supersonic jet crashed shortly after take-off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four people on [read more]

Four people have been confirmed to have died after a Beechcraft Super King Air crashed on take-off from the airport shortly before 16:00hrs local time. The victims are the two Dutch pilots of the aircraft along with two passengers who were on the flight including flight nurse Maria Fernanda Rojaz [read more]

With the publication of the preliminary report into the crash of flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick last month which killed 260 people, victims families and the wider aviation industry have been left with far more questions that answers. We now know that shortly after taking off, as the [read more]

The preliminary report by India’s Air Accident Investigations Bureau (AAIB), shows that the fuel cut off switches of the Boeing 787 were in the off position when the London Gatwick bound plane crashed on take-off from Ahmedabad on the 19th of June killing 260 people. The report shows the focus [read more]

The crash of Air India flight AI171 whilst taking off from Ahmedabad earlier today is the first total hull loss of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner since its entry into service in 2011 so the questions are now turning to how this could have happened and what went wrong. That will [read more]