§ Mr. Rankinasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation to state, to the nearest convenient date, the number of land plane accidents to aircraft of the three Corporations which were due to human error of judgment, mechanical failure and navigational 207W failure, respectively; similar information in respect of charter operators; the number of accidents in which all the occupants of the aircraft, both passengers and crew, had lost their lives; and the number of
NOTIFIABLE ACCIDENTS TO LANDPLANES UNDER THE AIR NAVIGATION (INVESTIGATION OF ACCIDENTS) REGULATIONS, 1922, FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1946, TO 30TH APRIL, 1948. Operator. Year. Scheduled Flight. Non-Scheduled Flight. Principal Cause. Error of Judgment Mechanical Failure. Navigational Failure.* British Overseas Airways Corporation. 1946 8 2 7† — — 1947 2 4 6‡ — — 1948 — — — — — British European Airways Corporation. 1946 1 — 1 — — 1947 5 — 2‡ 2 — 1948 3¶ — — — — British South American Airways Corporation. 1946 2 — 2 — — 1947 4 1 4 — — 1948 1 — (Details not yet known, still under investigation). Charter (passenger) 1946 7 7 — — 1947 14 8§ 3 — Charter (non-passenger) 1946 4 3 — — 1947 15 11 3 — * Navigational Failure: Failure of ground or airborne navigational equipment. † Includes one non-scheduled flight also involving mechanical failure. ‡ Includes one caused either wholly or in part by error of judgment in navigation. § Includes three caused either wholly or in part by error of judgment in navigation. ¶ Collision with Russian fighter accounts for one of these. The remaining two are still under investigation. Note: The total number of accidents are not all shown under the columns "Principal Causes". This is due to the fact that in some cases, the causes are not known, e.g., where the aircraft is missing or where no cause can be given because some of the accidents which are notifiable cannot be analysed under these headings.
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FATAL ACCIDENTS (LANDPLANES) ON COMMERCIAL PASSENGER FLIGHTS OF UNITED KINGDOM CORPORATION AND CHARTER OPERATORS FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1946, TO 10TH MAY, 1948. Operator. Accidents involving death of all on board. Other accidents involving death to passengers or crew. Total fatal accidents. Scheduled Passenger Services— British Overseas Airways Corporation — 2 2 British European Airways Corporation 1* 2 3 British South American Airways Corporation 3 1 4 Charter Companies (passenger carrying operations) Nil 3 3 TOTAL, ALL UNITED KINGDOM OPERATORS 4 8 12 * This is the accident to British European Airways aircraft involved in collision with Soviet fighter over Berlin. accidents in which there had been serious loss of life.
§ Mr. LindgrenFollowing is the information: