Searching the new AAIB website
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Searching the new AAIB website
Any tips on how to search the AAIB site?
I'm looking for glider accidents that occurred in August 1989, but even putting non specific "1989" in the search engine comes up with nothing. You used to be able to trawl through all the reports but I'm damned if I can figure it out now
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I'm looking for glider accidents that occurred in August 1989, but even putting non specific "1989" in the search engine comes up with nothing. You used to be able to trawl through all the reports but I'm damned if I can figure it out now
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Originally Posted by shortstripper
I'm looking for glider accidents that occurred in August 1989, but even putting non specific "1989" in the search engine comes up with nothing.
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It is ... or rather was. I've accessed it in the past. It was in detailed pdf format back five or six years and summarised reports for quite a few years years before that. I know they are there (unless they've been removed). What I can't do is find them?
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I am sure the only electronic AAIB bulletins available on their website date from 1996 onwards.
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Every time they have another website design, they break the search engine and past reports go missing. In this case their search engine is rubbish. Write them a e-mail reminding them that governmental websites should be clear and accessible (it's a policy). If they do nothing write to your MP or Lembit!
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Originally Posted by BlueRobin
Every time they have another website design, they break the search engine and past reports go missing. In this case their search engine is rubbish. Write them a e-mail reminding them that governmental websites should be clear and accessible (it's a policy). If they do nothing write to your MP or Lembit!
Or just drop them a friendly note without the "it's a policy"/"I'm going to whine to politicians" and they'll prob90 fix it even quicker...
You need to chill out BR
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Hi SS. If you have a specific report in mind just get in touch with the AAIB direct, I think you will find them very willing to help - they certainly indicated that would be the case during a recent visit.
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Which prang were you looking for? I was in a really good one in 1989 and that was one of the few where the AAIB did the investigation and prepared a report.
I was just curious for more details. I think the glider would have been based at Lasham at the time.SS
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Maybe? But even ones I know where there, I can't seem to find within their site. For example, if you type in G-BBCY it returns nothing, yet a google search finds an AAIB report showing G-BBCY involved (indirectly) in a fatal accident. There just doesn't seem to be as many reports available as there were? ... maybe it's just the way I'm searching? Oh well, not to worry
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What have you got against poor old 'CY. She's a lovely aeroplane!!
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I know, I used to own a share in her 
I also knew the pilot who died 
Ironically he also owned a share in CY.
I referred to that report simply because I knew it was there. When I searched the AAIB ste for it I couldn't find it, yet google can. Their search engine seems to be rubbish!
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I also knew the pilot who died Ironically he also owned a share in CY. I referred to that report simply because I knew it was there. When I searched the AAIB ste for it I couldn't find it, yet google can. Their search engine seems to be rubbish!
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