§ Sir Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Transport (1) if he will make it his policy to call, via the United Nations and other international agencies, for all countries and airlines to publish official reports of air crash inquiries where there has been loss of life;
(2) what steps he takes to ascertain the cause of a foreign airline accident which has resulted in the death of a British subject where the country concerned does not publish the result of the inquiry findings.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe International Civil Aviation Organisation, under the aegis of the United Nations, recommends to contracting states in its "International Standards and Recommended Practices for Aircraft Accident Investigation" that:480W
In the interests of accident prevention, the state conducting the investigation should publish the Final Report as soon as possible".On those occasions when the United Kingdom has a special interest in a foreign airline accident by virtue of fatalities to British citizens, and where that state does not publish the results of its investigation, the chief inspector of accidents is able to contact the investigating authority of the state in question to facilitate the availability of information.