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Harvard crash after reduced-power take-off
AFTER NORMAL POWER and pre-departure checks, the pilot of Harvard T-6G began his take-off from Duxford''s R06

Metal frame near runway
AN INSTRUCTOR FLEW with the owner of a Piper Cub for a type conversion at Fenland Airfield.

Ditched on test flight
THE PILOT OF a Rutan Long EZ planned the flight to complete the single remaining item of the Permit to Fly renewal air test; this was a high speed run...

Return-to-field fatality
THE PILOT-OWNER OF a Socata TB 10 Tobago went to Sherburn Airfield, Yorkshire to collect the aircraft. A new intercom unit had been fitted. He intende...

Carb icing and the R22
ON THE MORNING of the accident, a Robinson R22 was booked to operate several training sorties from Sherburn-in-Elmet. Two dual training flights were ...

ATC in French leads to English pilot's death
A BRITISH CO-PILOT was killed and the captain seriously injured in a Shorts 330 turboprop at Paris, Charles de Gaulle.

Glasgow Titan tragedy
A CESSNA 404 Titan Ambassador III had been chartered to transport an airline crew of nine from Glasgow to Aberdeen. The aircraft was crewed by two pil...

Venom lands wheels up
A DE HAVILLAND Venom was being flown from Bournemouth to Biggin Hill. It was the number three aircraft in a three-aircraft formation, positioning for ...

Fuel planning dangers
THE PILOT OF the PA-34-220T Seneca twin planned a return flight from Shoreham to Sheffield. He planned to carry sufficient fuel for both legs.

Fuel starvation in Yak?
THE OWNER PILOT flew the Yak-18A from Old Sarum to Lincoln Wickenby.

Highlands SAR leads to advice on locators
THE PILOT OF the C152 and a colleague planned to fly from Inverness to Benbecula for a business meeting.

Seat sags onto aileron torque tube
THE PREVIOUS OWNER delivered the Rans S4 Coyote on a trailer with the wings and tailplane surfaces folded

Undershoot after full flaps set by observer
A SCINTEX CP301-C2 had undergone an extensive rebuild and a flight test was planned in order to obtain a PFA Permit renewal.

Dual controls a hazard in ex-Army Scout
THE HELICOPTER WAS an ex-Army Air Corps Westland Scout, recently refurbished and placed on the civilian Register. The pilot, a part owner, had complet...

Unexplained RV-6A farm strip accident
THE VANS RV-6A had flown just over an hour, and had been on the ground for about twenty minutes, before it took off from the grass strip at Bagber Far...

Airbus sidesticks and tailscrapes at Heathrow
THE AIRBUS A321 was on final approach for Heathrow''s R27L. The crew used the autopilot coupled to the Flight Director in managed speed mode. At about...

Safety Briefs
The tail of B737 scraped the ground during take-off after the rotate speed was incorrectly bugged by the crew--based on the aircraft having a zero ra...

Europa coolant boiled, discharged into engine
THE PILOT OF the Europa had been collaborating with a friend who was developing a Light Aircraft Glass Cockpit display system (LAGC); a pre-production...

Runaway struck bowser
THE PIPER PA-15 was parked at Fishburn, County Durham. After refuelling, it was pushed away from the bowser and turned through 90° so that the en...

Fatal loss of control over Welsh mountains
THE PILOT FLEW from Swansea Airport to Shenstone Airstrip to meet a PFA Inspector, in order to renew the Jodel''s Permit to Fly. On the return flig...

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