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The
Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) investigates civil aircraft
accidents and serious incidents within the UK, its Overseas
Territories and Crown Dependencies. It has its origins in the
Accidents Investigation Branch of the Royal Flying Corps, founded in
1915, and is now an independent unit within the Department for
Transport. The Chief Inspector of Air Accidents reports directly to
the Secretary of State for Transport on air safety matters.
The
work of the AAIB includes:
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responding
quickly to air accidents and serious incidents
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conducting
thorough, independent, impartial and timely investigations into air
accidents and serious incidents
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producing
reports that explain the circumstances and causes of accidents and
serious incidents, without attributing blame
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providing
assistance and expertise to international air accident
investigations and organisations
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improving
aviation safety in general through education and sharing the lessons
learnt from accident investigations
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treating
the survivors and relatives of air accident victims sympathetically,
helping them understand what happened and what’s being done to
prevent future accidents
To
carry out this
work there are six teams, each led by a principal inspector. The
teams are made up of operations inspectors, engineering inspectors,
flight data recorder inspectors and a human factors inspector.
Our
speaker, a senior member of the AAIB, will speak about the work of
the AAIB and how the AAIB goes about that work. He will support his
presentation with case studies.
Our speaker, Mark Ellis, is a
Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Portsmouth and
became a CEng MIMechE in 2002. After undertaking wing systems
installation design and support at Airbus Filton and Airbus Toulouse
on the A380, followed by design support at GKN and then Chief
Engineering at Airbus Filton on the A320, he is now a Senior
Engineering Inspector at the AAIB, having joined in 2017.
Speaker(s)
Our speaker, Mark Ellis, is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Portsmouth and became a CEng MIMechE in 2002. He is now a Senior Engineering Inspector at the AAIB, having joined in 2017.