HC Deb 01 July 1994 vol 245 cc766-7W
Mr. Gapes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the near miss between two large passenger aircraft over Ilford at approximately 18.16 hours on Friday 17 June.

Mr. Norris

My officials have consulted the Civil Aviation Authority about this. They have so far been unable to find any evidence of an air miss on the day stated involving two large passenger aircraft in the Ilford area.

Sir Peter Fry

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what reports he has received of problems for aircraft following immediately behind Boeing 757 aircraft in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Norris

Reports of this kind are made to the Civil Aviation Authority's national air traffic services, under the wake vortex incident reporting scheme. In 1991, NATS reported its findings from operating the Wake Vortex database in CAA paper 91015—"United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Wake Vortex Database: Analysis of Incidents Reported Between 1982 and 1990". The subject of B757 aircraft was covered in section 7 of that report.