§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many lives have been lost, both civilian and military, from accidents involving RAF aircraft in training manoeuvres in the period 1945 to the present.
§ Mr. PattieRAF aircraft accident statistics, which are available only from 1946, do not discriminate between crashes which occurred on training flights and those on operational missions. The information readily available on the number of lives lost as a result of these accidents is as follows:
Civilian Military Total 1946–63 * * 3,684 1964 1 34 35 1965 0 69 69 1966 1 32 33 1967 0 61 61 1968 0 40 40 1969 0 21 21 1970 0 23 23 1971 2 73 75 1972 1 23 24 1973 2 21 23 1974 1 5 6 1975 1 15 16 1976 0 22 22 1977 3 7 10 1978 0 24 24 1979 to date 3 8 11 4,177 * Breakdown between civilian and military not available.
§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many RAF aircraft have been lost during training manoeuvres during the period from 1945 until the present date; and what has been the cost of these losses.
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§ Mr. PattieRAF aircraft accident statistics, which are available only from 1946, do not discriminate between crashes which occurred on training flights and those on operational missions. The number of aircraft damaged beyond repair or missing was as follows:
1946–63 4,720 (average 262 per year) 1964 57 (average 31 per year) 1965 35 1966 52 1967 47 1968 42 1969 26 1970 29 1971 38 1972 27 1973 25 1974 12 1975 16 1976 25 1977 14 1978 20 1979 (to date) 25 Information on the cost of all these losses is not readily available and could not be obtained without disproportionate effort.