Originally Posted by
Small cog
I was correcting your shortened name for the type.
Except that you were trying to replace something that was already correct with something that isn't.
Short Brothers started using the contraction "Shorts" well before they launched their commuter aircraft and used the term in all the marketing for the SD3-30 aka "Shorts 330" and SD3-60 aka "Shorts 360" (like the sales brochure in my previous post - surely you're not trying to tell us the manufacturer got the name wrong!).
In fact you might be surprised how many manufacturers give their aircraft marketing designations that differ from what's on the Type Certificate: "Fokker 100", "CRJ 200", "ATR-72-600", etc.
But getting somewhat back on topic, since we happen to be discussing Belfast's finest it provides another good illustration of what I'm talking about
: there are 24 accident/incident records for the type on the AAIB website, covering 19 separate events between 1986 and 2007.
But to find them all you need to do
four separate searches, each of which will return a different batch of events, for:
"Shorts 360"
"SD360"
"SD3-60"
"SD 3-60"
(you need the quotes, otherwise the daft search algorithm will find dozens of unrelated events for airships, helicopters, light aircraft, etc)
No. I'm not kidding - you couldn't make this stuff up.
