Investigation is treated as problem in detection, calling for observation and deduction and scientific experiments to test tentative explanations; after discovery and retrieval of wreckage, latter is sent to Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, for jig-saw reconstruction; principal methods for ascertaining cause of accident comprise study of fractures, scratches, marks and indentations, of clues found in damage to mechanical components; process of deduction from evidence, and experiments to simulate conditions of accident; it is shown how different lines of investigation may proceed simultaneously, and substantiate each other.
Scientific investigation of aircraft accidents
Aircraft Eng
Aircraft Engineering ; 37 , n 2
1965
7 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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