Talk:Meopham air disaster

WP:Death Assessment Commentary
Before a B-class is assessed, I think the article would benefit from a "Results" section, that might address the following issues: Overall, an interesting article on an important event. Good luck. Boneyard90 (talk) 00:02, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * As this was the first air accident to be published, it should be confirmed that a precedent was set, that was eventually mandated by law.
 * Since this accident, has it been standard practice to hold closed-sessions during the inquiry, and make the final report available to "all solicitors"? Was this policy in place, or did this incident set a precedent?
 * The coroner said that souvenir hunters hindered his work. Did this lead to early measures for disaster management?
 * Technical aspects: Did the findings of the inquiry lead to improvements in wing construction? engine mounts? overall fuselage construction?


 * You make some good points. Aircrash investigation in the UK (as I suspect elsewhere) evolved gradually. Initially, it would have come from the RFC/RNAS/RAF investigations into accidents occuring during training and operations. With the start of civil aviaition in the UK on 1 May 1919, came the start of civil aircraft crashes, and subsequently investigation. Sightseers were a common feature of early aircraft crashes. Sometimes the people assisted in the rescue of victims, sometimes they stole pieces of the aircraft as souvenirs. Sightseers were a problem as late as 1972. The first public inquiry into and aircraft accident in the UK was in 1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash.
 * Air accident invistigations were then, and are now, held in camera, although reports are now published for all to read. This is something that Flight argued for on a number of occasions. As for technical aspects, I don't think that anything major came out of this particular accident, although lessons were learned and the results may have influenced the next stage of development. Mjroots (talk) 10:11, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * What is now the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) was founded in 1915 as the Accidents Investigation Branch of the RFC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.57.101 (talk) 19:06, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Cause
IIRC, this was one of the first (if not the first) air accident(s) where the effect of metal fatigue was implicated. The problem IIRC was due to initial difficulties in controlling the metallurgical properties of duralumin during manufacture. It was still a relatively new material for aeroplane construction at the time. The early duralumin also had problems with exfoliating, i.e., bits flaking away. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.66.73 (talk) 14:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

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