HC Deb 05 March 1985 vol 74 c477W
Mr. Donald Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many air misses have been recorded in the airspace over and adjacent to the Western Isles in each year since 1970; and if he will provide a breakdown of these figures into air misses between (a) two civil aircraft and (b) two military aircraft and (c) a civil and a military aircraft.

Mr. Lee

There has been a total of five, each involving one civil and one military aircraft. They occurred in the years 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980 and 1982.