§ Mr. Michael McNair-Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give figures of accidents of American military aircraft in England since 1968 including deaths of military and civilian personnel directly attributable to such accidents and the types of aircraft involved.
§ Mr. WellbelovedSince 1st January 1968 there have been 26 accidents involving loss of or serious damage to USAF aircraft in England resulting in 23 US military fatalities and 11 injured—18 of the fatalities resulted from an accident involving one transport aircraft. No British citizen, either military or civilian, has been killed or injured as a result of these accidents. The types of aircraft involved have in the main been combat rather than transport.
The number of accidents to USAF aircraft in the United Kingdom has declined significantly since 1970.