Notification of Aircraft Accidents and Incidents

Accident and Serious Incident Regulations, 2019, LI 2375, establishes immediate notification requirements for both Ghana and foreign air operators when an accident or serious incidents occur.

Immediate notification of accidents and incidents to the accident investigation authority is essential because the proper conduct of an investigation requires the prompt arrival of investigators at the accident site. Any delay in their arrival may well result in the deterioration or disappearance of essential evidence due to theft, displacement or improper handling of the wreckage, adverse weather, corrosion of the wreckage, obliteration of ground scars or contamination of witness accounts through discussion among themselves.

For details on how to notify the AIB on accidents and serious incidents, click here

Downloadable Accident and Serious Incident Occurrence/Operator Form (MOA/AIB/Form/001) @ http://moa.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/OCCURRENCE-FORM-AIB.pdf

 

Click Online Reporting Form to report an accident or incident.

 

AIB Contact Details:

Tel :  (233) 30 277 3281 / (233) 30 277 5857 / (233) 24 148 4413

Email: aib@moa.gov.gh; info@moa.gov.gh

 

Reportable Occurrences

Below is a non-exhaustive list of typical examples of incidents that are likely to be serious incidents:

  1. Near collisions requiring an avoidance manoeuvre to avoid a collision or an unsafe situation or when an avoidance action would have been appropriate.
  2. Collisions not classified as accidents.
  3. Controlled flight into terrain only marginally avoided.
  4. Aborted take-offs on –
    1. a closed or engaged runway;
    2. an unassigned runway; or
    3. a taxiway (excluding any aborted take-off by a helicopter, which take-off had been authorised by the aerodrome operator and the aerodrome control tower).
  5. Take-offs from –
    1. a closed or engaged runway;
    2. an unassigned runway; or
    3. a taxiway (excluding any take-off by a helicopter that is authorised by the aerodrome operator and the aerodrome control tower).
  6. Landings or attempted landings on –
    1. a closed or engaged runway;
    2. an unassigned runway; or
    3. a taxiway (excluding any landing or attempted landing by a helicopter, which landing had been authorised by the aerodrome operator and the aerodrome control tower).
  7. Gross failures to achieve predicted performance during take-off or initial climb.
  8. Fires and/or smoke in the cockpit, in the passenger compartment, in cargo compartments or engine fires, even though such fires were extinguished by the use of extinguishing agents.
  9. Events requiring the emergency use of oxygen by the flight crew.
  10. Aircraft structural failures or engine disintegrations, including uncontained turbine engine failures, not classified as an accident.
  11. Multiple malfunctions of one or more aircraft systems seriously affecting the operation of the aircraft.
  12. Flight crew incapacitation in flight.
  13. Fuel quantity level or distribution situations requiring the declaration of an emergency by the pilot, such as insufficient fuel, fuel exhaustion, fuel starvation, or inability to use all usable fuel on board.
  14. Take-off or landing incidents. Incidents such as undershooting, overrunning over-running off the side of runways
  15. System failures, weather phenomena, operations outside the approved flight envelope or other occurrences which caused or could have caused difficulties controlling the aircraft.
  16. Failures of more than one system in a redundancy system mandatory for flight guidance and navigation.
  17. The unintentional or, as an emergency measure, the intentional release of a slung load or any other load carried external to the aircraft.
  18. Runway incursions in which a collision is narrowly avoided.