On 2 January 2024, an Airbus A350-900 collided with a Bombardier DHC8-300 almost immediately after a night touchdown in good visibility at Tokyo Haneda after the DHC8 had entered the runway for departure without clearance. Both aircraft caught fire. The DHC8 was destroyed and five of the six occupants died. The A350 then veered off the runway and stopped but all 379 occupants evacuated prior to complete destruction by fire. A TWR visual-only runway incursion warning was unnoticed for over a minute and stop bar lighting was out of service for upgrading and anyway only routinely used in low visibility.

On 9 February 2023, a Boeing 777-200ER was en-route near Marseille when the cabin crew observed smoke coming from a rear galley oven which was spreading into the rear passenger cabin. After an immediate initial response and use of multiple Halon Fire extinguishers, the smoke ceased after about 20 minutes but the fumes remained. Although this meant no ongoing emergency existed, some cabin crew and passengers had experienced breathing difficulties and it was decided to return to Amsterdam. The cabin crew response to the situation was subsequently assessed as contrary to applicable procedures and relevant cabin crew training seemingly inadequate.

On 6 June 2023, a Boeing 717-200 was on base leg about 10 nm from Hobart when chlorine fumes became evident on the flight deck. As the aircraft became fully established on final approach, the Captain recognised signs of cognitive impairment and handed control to the initially unaffected First Officer. Just before touchdown, he was similarly affected but was able to safely complete the landing and taxi in. The same aircraft had experienced a similar event two days earlier with no fault found. The Investigation determined that the operator’s procedures for responding to crew incapacitation in flight had been inadequate.

On 15 December 2019, an Airbus A330-200 turned back to Sydney shortly after departure when a major hydraulic system leak was annunciated. The return was uneventful until engine shutdown after clearing the runway following which APU use for air conditioning was followed by a gradual build up of hydraulic haze and fumes which eventually prompted an emergency evacuation. The Investigation found that fluid leaking from ruptured rudder servo hose had entered the APU air intake. The resulting evacuation was found to have been somewhat disorganised with this being attributed mainly to a combination of inadequate cabin crew procedures and training.

On 5 August 2019, an Airbus A321 crew declared a MAYDAY immediately after clearing the landing runway at Valencia when a hold smoke warning was annunciated. An emergency evacuation was completed without injuries. This warning followed “white smoke” from the air conditioning system entering both the passenger cabin and flight deck in the four minutes before landing which had prompted the pilots to don oxygen masks. The Investigation found the white smoke was the direct consequence of an oil leak from the right engine as a result of the misalignment and breakage of a bearing and its associated hydraulic seal.