{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-996/annex",
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  "legislation": "eur/2010/996",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on the investigation and prevention of accidents and incidents in civil aviation and repealing Directive 94/56/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-996",
  "path": "annex",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "List of examples of serious incidents",
  "text": "The incidents listed are typical examples of incidents that are likely to be serious incidents. The list is not exhaustive and only serves as guidance with respect to the definition of ‘serious incident’:\na near collision requiring an avoidance manoeuvre to avoid a collision or an unsafe situation or when an avoidance action would have been appropriate,\ncontrolled flight into terrain only marginally avoided,\naborted take-offs on a closed or engaged runway, on a taxiway, excluding authorised operations by helicopters, or from an unassigned runway,\ntake-offs from a closed or engaged runway, from a taxiway, excluding authorised operations by helicopters, or from an unassigned runway,\nlandings or attempted landings on a closed or engaged runway, on a taxiway, excluding authorised operations by helicopters, or from an unassigned runway,\ngross failures to achieve predicted performance during take-off or initial climb,\nfires and smoke in the passenger compartment, in cargo compartments or engine fires, even though such fires were extinguished by the use of extinguishing agents,\nevents requiring the emergency use of oxygen by the flight crew,\naircraft structural failure or engine disintegration, including uncontained turbine engine failures, not classified as an accident,\nmultiple malfunctions of one or more aircraft systems seriously affecting the operation of the aircraft,\nflight crew incapacitation in flight,\nfuel quantity requiring the declaration of an emergency by the pilot,\nrunway incursions classified with severity A according to the Manual on the Prevention of Runway Incursions (ICAO Doc 9870) which contains information on the severity classifications,\ntake-off or landing incidents. Incidents such as undershooting, overrunning or running off the side of runways,\nsystem failures, weather phenomena, operation outside the approved flight envelope or other occurrences which could have caused difficulties controlling the aircraft,\nfailure of more than one system in a redundancy system mandatory for flight guidance and navigation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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