§ Mr. Robert Howarthasked the President of the Board of Trade when he intends to publish the commissioners' Report, following the public inquiry into the accident to a British European Airways' Vanguard at Heathrow on 27th October, 1965; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. JayThe Report is being put on sale today by the Stationery Office. Copies are available in the Library. It concludes that a series of misfortunes, no single one of which on its own would have caused the accident, combined to bring about the eventual crash. More specifically, the probable cause of the accident is stated to be pilot error due to a combination of 11 stated factors. The Report covers a wide field in its findings and recommendations and calls for careful study by all concerned. All the recommendations affecting the Board of Trade are being examined: and action has already been taken on a number of them.