On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:09:40 -0500, Ron Natalie
wrote in ::

Larry Dighera wrote:
It seems the on-line NTSB web site now has much more detailed accident
report PDF files available by using the search page:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp

For example, here's the old format:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...14X35941&key=1

The new format includes PDF files with considerably more information
included: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/GenPDF.asp?...85FA169&rpt=fa

Depends on the date. The really old stuff has little more than the
statistical information on the crash. The mid stuff has a synopsis.
Later stuff (and they've been doing this for a while) has fuller reports
(facts, probable cause, depending on where they are in the investigation).

I found more information on the accidents I researched than was there
the last time I looked. That's an improvement regardless.

Before what date would you classify "really old stuff?"

The first fatal airplane accident occurred at Fort Meyer on September
17, 1908 while Orville Wright was conducting military trials of the
Wright Flyer. In mid-flight, the propeller broke as a result of
hitting guy wires that Orville had adjusted prior to departure, and
the plane plunged 150 feet. Orville suffered multiple hip and leg
fractures but Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Signal
Corps., who was also on board, died.

http://www.fullbooks.com/A-History-of-Aeronautics1.html