About military inquiries
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Unlike civilian inquiries, the Ministry of defence is pretty good at publication of Service Inquires, Internal reviews, Board of Inquiries and Miliary Aircraft Accident Summaries and Non-Statutory Inquiries. You can find all, less MAAS here.
MAAS are a little problematic. The MoD has admitted that it can't locate them all, but what is has been able to find has been placed on archives here.
Current data
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A bulk download of SIs (very roughly organised) is here.
I have not been able to download all the MAAS yet.
Future work
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Future work
A master database of recommendations is the goal, but this will be a very slow process.
For some reason the published reports are not normal PDFs (the modern originals are all created in word), but are scans of print outs of the original. This may be for security, or due to the need for careful redaction, but the result is to make them alm
A master database of recommendations is the goal, but this will be a very slow process.
For some reason the published reports are not normal PDFs (the modern originals are all created in word), but are scans of print outs of the original. This may be for security, or due to the need for careful redaction, but the result is to make them almost impossible to search or use analytically.
The options are manual extraction, which at least allows for careful QA, or conversion to word then extraction. The MoD have protected the PDFs to precent OCR as well.