Originally Posted by
megan
Dave, if it's of any comfort the Oz ATSB web site is equally terrible. Do a search and it invariably returns a big fat zero, I find it necessary usually to use google as the search engine.
I take your point, but in this case even if the gov.uk domain dictates the platform and search engine that the AAIB is obliged to use, presumably Farnborough still retains responsibility for the accuracy and consistency of the content.
Leaving aside the howlers, typos and plain WTFs, it would be reasonable to expect that the industry should be able to do website searches based on one or more of the standard taxonomies (ECCAIRS, ADREP, ICAO ATDs, CICTT, etc).
But no, you have to second-guess how the investigator who wrote up each event decided to describe the aircraft type involved, which seems to depend on what they had for breakfast that morning.
A recent search for Fokker 100 accidents/incidents came up with 22 events, but only by combining the results from
seven separate searches. Take your pick from:
"F28 Mark 0100"
"F28 Mark 100"
"F28 Mk 0100"
"F28 Mk 100"
"Fokker 100"
"Fokker F 100"
"Fokker F100"
An expression involving "fit for purpose" [not] springs to mind.