§ Miss McIntosh:To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many air accidents or serious incidents, in addition to total losses, involving United Kingdom-registered airlines are registered on the Airclaims CASE database for the last 10 years for which information is available; and what the comparable accident level was for airlines registered in (a) the Republic of Ireland and (b) Germany. [141246]
§ Mr. McNulty:The following table sets out the number of major partial loss and minor loss accidents for United Kingdom, German and Irish airlines contained in the Airclaims CASE database for the period 1 January 1993 to 31 December 2002.
Accidents other than total loss accidents for the period 1 January 1993 to 1 January 2003 Passenger operations
Aircraft
>5,700 kg
mtwa
Cargo operation
Aircraft
<5,700 kg
mtwa
Aircraft >5,700 kg
mtwa
Aircraft <5,700 kg
mtwa
UK airlines 29 0 5 0 German airlines 12 0 2 0 Irish airlines 3 0 1 0 Note:
Mtwa = maximum total weight authorised.
These figures are not directly comparable because of differences in other factors such as the number of hours flown.