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April Bulletin 2012

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Commercial Air Transport - Fixed wing

Airbus A319 (G-EUPO), unreliable airspeed indications, 17 December 2010.
Airbus A380 (VH-OQD), No 3 engine cowl struck by baggage container, London Heathrow Airport on 14 January 2012
Bombardier DHC-8-402 Dash 8 (G-ECOF), in-flight smoke event and evacuation at Edinburgh Airport, 21 July 2011
DHC-8-402 (G-ECOK), unstabilised ILS approach, Manchester Airport, 16 November 2011

Commercial Air Transport - Rotorcraft

AS332L2 Super Puma (G-PUMS), Automatic Flight Control System disconnect on 29 July 2011 near Aberdeen.
AS365N3 Dauphin II (G-REDG), engine fire at Norwich Airport, 18 April 2011

General Aviation - Fixed wing

Piper PA-28-161 Cherokee Warrior II (G-BODC), power failure and forced landing near Wetherby, Yorkshire, 27 December 2011
Piper PA-38 Tomahawk (G-RVRF), collision with houses after stall after takeoff, near Manchester Barton Airport on 29 July 2011
Vans RV-8 (G-XSEA), ground loop after landing at North Weald Airfield, Essex on 14 January 2012

Corrections

Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub (G-BIDK), groundloop during landing at Cranfield Airport, 1 September 2011
Zlin Z.526F (G-PCDP) and Ikarus C42 (G-CDVI), ground collision at Popham Airfield, 13 November 2011