Fatal Accidents (0)
Occurrence Reports
Engine Failures (7), including rough running, return to land, RTO and double ECU failure. Lycoming (2 heli), TAE125 diesel (1) PWC (2).
Forced Landings (-), precautionary landings due weather (2 helicopters)
Airprox
Reports (9). TCAS RA (-)
Landing
Accidents (7)
Take-off
Accidents (1)
Runway
Excursions (1) Runway
Incursions – Red Stopbars. (2). Many GA pilots will not have seen red stop bars in use. The rule is never to cross an illuminated
stop bar even with clearance; ATC will
switch it off when giving clearance to enter or cross the runway it protects.
Wrong
Airport (-), Wrong Runway (1).
Tyre
Failures (1).
Rejected
take-offs (6)
Bird
Strike (3) and Hornets. One Cessna 152 pilot rejected a take-off
because hornets had made a nest in the barrel type wing root ventilator. After shutting down and ridding the cockpit
of hornets the intrepid pilot pushed the vent closed and continued with his
planned flight, only to find as the vent vibrated open that there were many
more hornets in the wing. A single
hornet sting can require hospital admission.
Landing
Gear (5) including two gear up landings and one low go-around.
Maintenance
Reports (18). Including several
reports of an engine oil leak, all the same aircraft.
Filler
cap (1),
pogo stick (1)
Taxiing
Events (10) including collisions (3), ground handling and no
clearance..
Loss
of Comms for any reason (5)
IFR
Level Bust (11), departure turn (2)
VFR
Level Bust (1), exceeding not above altitude.
Fire (-), Smoke (1), Fumes (-), CO Warning (-).
Alternator/Bus/Electrical
Failure (4),
ATC
Coordination of IFR GA Flights (5), see notes.
Flight
Controls (1) a BE90 Kingair, there have been similar previous
reports.
Door
Unlatched (2)
RT
– Picked
up an instruction for another aircraft.
Vacuum
System Failure (1) with loss of gyros in poor weather.
Self-induced
Pressure to make a flight despite deteriorating weather and/or
approaching darkness (3).
One aircraft departed to find
the weather worse than expected. Upon
return to the departure airfield the pilot was unable to see it and although
cleared to join for runway xx, landed on the reciprocal instead because that
was the only part of the airfield that could be seen..
One pilot departed an airport
with a CTR although the TAF indicated
poor weather during the period of the flight. The approaching weather was visible prior to departure and the tower
controller advised the pilot of this. SVFR departure clearance was given because the current METAR was above
the appropriate minima - it soon would not be. When airborne the pilot lost sight of the ground, declared an emergency
and was radar vectored to final and a safe landing in very poor visibility.
One pilot felt it important to
make test flight after maintenance but darkness was approaching. When airborne in the local area the pilot
could not identify local landmarks that he was normally familiar with and
infringed a CTR on his return, causing disruption to commercial IFR traffic.
Airspace
Infringements (42) T indicates areas where training could
be improved effectively. S suggests that systemic improvements could be implemented.
Various contributory factors were:
Inadequate planning (1).Time pressure made this task for an instructor rushed. This is quite a common practice; ‘After your flight with _ _ _ (person) just go to (airfield) and pick up the pilot of (aircraft).Even instructors need to plan flights. T
Weather Factors, including turbulence (4).
Transponders Mode C faulty or over reading (1).S
Take Two (3). T
Misidentified surface features, lateral navigation error or misread the moving map (1).
Relative navigation (1)
Confusion of CAS bases (2), including moving map presentation. S
Chart obscuration or presentation (2), when reported or indicated.
Altimetry (3), two departed the circuit with QFE set. S
Climbed too soon (1).
Descended too late (1).
North Weald Departures/ Arrivals (-).
Moving map failure (1). S
Farnborough CTR/CTA (3) S
Distractions:- Workload (1), changing squawk (2) instructing or task (2), tech problems (1) including moving map failure, passengers (-).
Instrument scan inadequate (-).T.
Unfamiliar with avionics (-)
Frequency Monitoring Code not used or pilot not listening (3) T.
Late request (1).
London FIS (2).
Decision making (1)
Formation / Display (2)
Instructor on board (5) cases reported, student solo (2)