Reports
Annual Safety Report 2013
U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). 77 pp. Figures, indexes, tables. October 2013. Available from the AAIB at <www.aaib.gov.uk>.
This report is the AAIB’s ninth annual review of aviation accident data from the previous year, along with a description of progress made involving agency safety recommendations published the previous year.
The document includes a brief presentation of accident data from 2012, 2011 and 2010, followed by the AAIB’s progress report on the results of recommendations; this progress report is divided into eight sections — one each for three weight categories of airplanes and three weight categories of rotorcraft, one for microlights and one for “others” — and two indexes — one arranged by section and the other, by recommendation number.
The report’s data show a total of 744 aviation accidents and serious incidents in 2012, …
