6ASerious aircraft incidents and reportable serious aircraft incidents

6A Serious aircraft incidents and reportable serious aircraft incidents

(1) For the purposes of this instrument, a serious aircraft incident is an incident involving circumstances indicating that there was a high probability of an aircraft accident. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), each of the following incidents in relation to the operation of an aircraft is to be reported as if it were a serious aircraft incident: (a) a near collision requiring an avoidance manoeuvre to avoid a collision or an unsafe situation, or when an avoidance action would have been appropriate; (b) a collision with anything other than an animal or a bird; (c) where controlled flight into terrain was only marginally avoided; (d) an aborted take‑off on a closed, engaged or unassigned runway, or on a taxiway (other than an authorised operation by a helicopter); (e) a take‑off from a closed, engaged or unassigned runway, or from a taxiway (other than an authorised operation by a helicopter); (f) a landing or attempted landing on a closed, engaged or unassigned runway, on a taxiway (other than an authorised operation by a helicopter), or on an unintended landing location (such as a road); (g) the retraction of a landing gear leg during landing, or a wheels‑up landing; (h) the dragging, during landing, of a wing tip, engine pod or any other part of the aircraft; (i) a significant failure to achieve predicted performance during take‑off or initial climb; (j) fire or smoke in the cockpit, the passenger compartment or a cargo compartment, or engine fire, even if the fire was extinguished by the use of extinguishing agents; (k) an event requiring the emergency use of oxygen by a flight crew member; (l) aircraft structural failure, engine disintegration or uncontained turbine engine failure; (m) multiple malfunctions of one or more aircraft systems seriously affecting the operation of the aircraft; (n) incapacitation of a flight crew member: (i) during a single pilot operation; or (ii) during a multi‑pilot operation, if the safety of the operation is compromised because of a significant increase in workload for the remaining flight crew members; (o) fuel quantity level or distribution situations (such as insufficient fuel, fuel exhaustion, fuel starvation, or inability to use all usable fuel on board) requiring the declaration of an emergency by the pilot; (p) a runway incursion where a collision is narrowly avoided; (q) a take‑off or landing incident such as under‑shooting, overrunning or running off the side of a runway; (r) any of the following which caused, or could have caused, difficulties controlling the aircraft: (i) system failures (including loss of power or thrust); (ii) weather phenomena; (iii) operations outside the approved flight envelope; (iv) any other occurrence; (s) failure of more than one redundant system mandatory for flight guidance and navigation; (t) the unintentional or emergency release of a slung load or any other load carried external to the aircraft.