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Expertise to Procure & Assure contracted aviation services. Independent aviation safety, ops, airworthiness and HF advice (FW, RW & UAS, military and civil).
At dusk the bird strike risk in that area was 'severe' according to USAF modelling, available online as a planning tool.
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
#OTD 2017: An air ambulance in cruise at c 1,000 ft struck multiple geese, crashing with the loss of 3 lives. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #airambulance #accident #birdstrike #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
#OTD 2016: Operational pressure, overconfidence and a false sense of security from technology may have contributed to what ANSV describe as an inadequately risk assessed and planned flight. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #accident #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
#OTD 2021: An £81mn fighter is downed by one of its own intake blanks. A case study on the concept of Organisational Accidents. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #humanfactors #aviationmaintenance #flightsafety #aviationsafety #safetymanagement #riskmanagement #organisationalculture
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#OTD 2020: Skipping a low recce #hems crew attention was on obstacles not slope, landing even after Mast Moment warnings with an MRB striking the cable cutter. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #airambulance #accident #flightsafety #aviationsaferty #humanfactors
November 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Aircraft damage and bowser fuel filters
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#OTD 2019 AAIB identify weaknesses in maintenance practices relating to flying control cables, an unrelated anomaly that has occurred on several Q400s & an issue how the Q400 FDR processes data that has been solved only for US operators. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#OTD 2018 The AAIB safety investigation revealed a difference between 'work as imagined' and 'work as done' in testing the pitot static system.
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#aviationmaintenance #humanfactors #aviationsafety #flightsafety
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
#OTD 2015: A near-miss in Canada raises observations on night approaches plus the engineering and safety responses to safety occurrences.
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#airambulance #helicopter #accident #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
#OTD 2018: ERJ-190 Flying Control Rigging Error: Design not error proof. Documentation misleading. Maintenance training only "a starting point". Competence assessment, IIs, supervision are key.
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#flightsafety #aviationsafety #maintenance #humanfactors
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#OTD 2016 Under customer induced time pressures, a pilot undergoing type conversion missed a unique type specific action that was not explicitly allocated to either PF or PM. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#OTD 2013: Commercial pressure, under-manning and a lack of independent inspections may have contributed to the omission of key components from the flying controls.
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#helicopter #accident #flightsafety #aviatonsafety #aviationmaintenance #humanfactors
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#OTD 2009: Loss of hover reference during a medevac from a ship leads to hoist cable contact, catastrophic damage and two serious injuries. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #sar #hoisting #hho #medevac #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#OTD 1999 a TAESA DC-9 crashed shortly after departure from Uruapan, Mexico after an over rotation on takeoff and climb with a very pronounced angle, which resulted in spatial disorientation and LOC-I aviation-safety.net/database/rec...
#flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#OTD 2022 Q400 radio altimeter fault, a long taxi and a loss of braking skybrary.aero/accidents-an... #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#OTD 2020: The Malaysian AAIB explains the two flying club helicopters had been 'flying in company' before the Mid Air Collision and they question the practice. aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #accident #midaircollision #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#OTD 2019 A pilot flying a Swedish reindeer herding flight attempts to land due to a change in circumstances (the reindeer had emigrated to Norway!) but a high landing site recce fails to detect a telephone cable... aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #accident #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#OTD 2017: We translated the JTSB report on this AS332L #accident in 2020. After a series of #maintenance errors, a deteriorating tail rotor blade flapping hinge failed in flight. aerossurance.com/helicopters/...
#helicopter #airworthiness #humanfactors #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Newly released ANSV report on AS350 I-TNLD autorotation accident from 2 July 2021 ansv.it/wp-content/u... #flightsafety #aviationsafety #helicopter
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Disconnected pich link
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#OTD 2020 Flying an approach on #NVIS a #HEMS #helicopter entered low-lying fog. The startled pilot initiated a go-around but contacted the ground. aerossurance.com/helicopters/...
#airambulance #humanfactors #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#OTD 2020 Pilatus PC-12NGX ditched in the Pacific c 870 nm E of Hawaii during a ferry flight. The 2 crew were rescued uninjured after 22 hours. NTSB revealed ferry tank system design issues. aerossurance.com/emergency-re... #accident #flightsafety #aviationsafety #sar #searchandrescue
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Crises - Failure of Conventional Responses: 16 patterns that are common in response to crises: aerossurance.com?p=1581
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#OTD 2015: 319 seconds to disaster: a high speed impact on approach to a drilling rig off Mumbai. Night offshore ops are 6 times higher risk than daytime ops. We look at the lessons.
aerossurance.com/helicopters/... #helicopter #accident #flightsafety #aviationsafety
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM