Accident Inquiry Results

[Canadian Break]

Does anyone know if the I can get access on-line to the Inquiry for the Harrier mid-air over/near Peterborough on 23 Feb 1983? Only interested because I knew one of those involved quite well.
CB

[Hipper]

I found this accident summary:

[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Page not found (http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/CorporatePublications/AirSafetyandAviationPublications/MAAS/1980s/19830223RafHarrierT4Xw926AndGr3Xv795.htm)

[taxydual]

UK Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/)

Search under 'Losses' by date.

[Canadian Break]

Thanks chaps, will go and look know.

[Canadian Break]

Does anyone know what subsequently happened to DO i.e. where he went/is now?

[Hipper]

The National Archives, Kew, has some Board of Inquiries (I know this from a crash report from 1960).

I've typed the serial numbers in their search box, which works for the report I know, but nothing comes up for the Harriers. Of course the thirty year rule may apply.

[Geehovah]

Accident summaries are posted online but its only the short versions:

Ministry of Defence | About Defence | Corporate Publications | Air Safety and Aviation Publications | MAAS (http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/CorporatePublications/AirSafetyandAviationPublications/MAAS/)

[Old-Duffer]

Because the posting of the Military Aircraft Accident Summaries (MAAS) was started as a retrospective exercise, there are quite a number of reports missing from the online link, particularly late '70s.

For summaries up to about 1975, there is a microfilmed card at the RAF Museum Hendon. These accident cards provide the briefest of summaries but will list pilots (and sometimes other crew). The format has changed over the years several times and so cards for - say - 1940 are brief in the extreme, whilst they become more useful as the years pass.

A note of caution, the cards are often in manuscript and the handwriting does not always 'film up' very well, there are occasional errors in recording dates and aircraft serial numbers and there are missing cards (or more correctly; 'the cards for some accidents are missing' - sorry ISSC tutor).

There is an Air Britain publication called; "Broken Wings" which gives a one line summary and the number of casualties for losses since about VJ-Day 1945 to 1999. There is also a five volume tome on the market which covers the topic in more detail and provides (and has provided) a useful Roll of Honour for squadron historians.

Old Duffer