§ 48. Colonel DAYasked the Secretary of State for Air the number of disasters resulting in lass of life to officers and men of the Royal Air Force during the 12 months preceding the last convenient date, stating the number of aircraft involved that were of War-time design and the number that were of post-War design, respectively?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Sir Samuel Hoare)During the 12 months ending 22nd November, 1926, there have been 54 fatal accidents in the Royal Air Force. Of these 36 occurred on aircraft of types in service before the end of the War and 18 on types brought into service after the War. The number of hours flown on machines of "Wartime" design was, however, very much greater than that flown on machines of "post-War" design, and there is no ground for believing that the older types of machine still in use are more liable to accident than those of more modern design.