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There are two sources for U.K. accident and incident reports.

Those accidents which are investigated by the government may be found at:

Department of Transport, Air Accident Investigation Bureau
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/ , Bulletins (from 1996).

The reports are also published in a printed monthly pamphlet sent to all UK
flying organisations including gliding clubs.

The snag with this database is that it is in order of date (by month) of
publication of the report, and I have not found a way of searching by
accident date. I have made out my own index on a word document, to link by
accident date to the report, of the accidents which interest me; most of
these are to tugs (all of which are reported), a few are serious glider
accidents.

The other source is the British Gliding Association for accident and
incident reports where the BGA lead the investigation.

A very short summary appears in Sailplane & Gliding, and is also included in
an annual summary available in print from the BGA. At one time there was a
link on the BGA web-site to an on-line copy put up by the Essex club.
However I cannot now find that link, and the last time I looked that
database had not been updated for several years.

According to the terms of reference of the BGA Accident Investigators
(available on-line at http://www.gliding.co.uk/forms/subcommitteesterms.pdf
see the last of 12 pages), "Subsequent to each investigation a report is to
be prepared, to the format of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch
("AAIB") of the Department for Transport ("DfT"), ----- ".

I have never seen or heard of any of these reports being published or made
available, they are not even given to pilots directly involved in accidents
or incidents, or sent to the reporting club. The DfT publish the reports,
why not the BGA? I think this is a disgrace.

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.).
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"tango4" wrote in message
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It will be interesting to read some more detail of the cause and
specific details if they are known.


You'll be lucky! Accident reports are rarely released in any detail.
Most seem to get a one or two sentence wrap up in the back of the S&G
Magazine. The feedback loop to pilots IMVHO is atrocious.

Ian Molesworth