Accidents
UK Report: Loss of Control Is Main GA Accident Cause
The AAIB received 708 occurrence notifications in 2017 and deployed 38 times to conduct field investigations, 16 of which were fatal accidents.

Loss of control in flight (LOC-I) was cited as the “dominant causal” factor in the majority of general aviation (GA) accidents in the UK last year, according to the 2017 Annual Safety Review from the UK’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). There were 708 occurrence notifications in 2017 and AAIB deployed 38 times to conduct field investigations. In 16 cases, they involved fatal accidents that resulted in 28 deaths. The fatal accidents involved GA aircraft with the “dominant causal factors…being loss of control in flight and weather-related issues.”


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