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Written question asked by Lord Beamish (Labour) on Friday, 26 February 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 March 2016 (named day). It was answered by Robert Goodwill (Conservative) on Wednesday, 2 March 2016 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Military Aircraft: Air Misses

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many International Civil Aviation Organisation category (a) A and (b) B Airprox incidents there were in the (i) Scottish Flight Information Region/Upper Information Region and (ii) London Flight Information Region/Upper Information Region involved foreign military aircraft in each year since 2010; and in each of those incidents what the (A) type of foreign military aircraft involved and (B) country of origin was.

Answer

There were 2 Category (Cat.) (A) and 1 Cat. (B) Incident(s) in the Scottish Flight Information Region/Upper Information Region (Scottish FIR/UIR) and 1 Cat (A) and 4 Cat. (B) incidents in the London FIR/UIR.

The table below outlines the type of military aircraft involved in each incident in both regions since 2010.

Airprox No

Date

Risk

Location

Aircraft Type

Country of origin

2012060

27/04/2012

A

LONDON FIR

KC135 STRATOTANKER

USA

2015009

04/02/2015

B

LONDON FIR

F15 EAGLE

USA

2013037

16/05/2013

B

LONDON FIR

F15 EAGLE

USA

2015111

14/07/2015

B

LONDON FIR

C5 GALAXY

USA

2015123

30/07/2015

B

LONDON FIR

F15 EAGLE

USA

2012057

24/04/2012

A

SCOTTISH FIR

C130 HERCULES

USA

2010163

13/10/2010

A

SCOTTISH FIR

SAAB JAS39 GRIPEN

Not recorded

2013149

10/10/2013

B

SCOTTISH FIR

MIRAGE 2000

France

The associated Airprox reports can be found on the UK Airprox board website (www.airproxboard.org.uk) under 'Reports and Analysis'.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
28773
Session
2015-16
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Military aircraft Air misses
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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