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.


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    Title :

    Scientific investigation of aircraft accidents


    Additional title:

    Aircraft Eng


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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