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One of the most popular sections in Scramble Magazine is the "Stoffer & Blik" section. Stoffuh and what ???
What does it mean ? Stoffer & Blik literally means Brush and Dustpan and it has been the name of our aircraft accidents and incidents,
crashes if you like, section for many years.
Anyway, in this part of Scramble you can find an in depth overview of both recent and
old aircraft accidents and incidents, military and civil, all over the world. The items listed are date,
aircraft type, construction number, operator, location and the fate of the aircraft involved are listed as
well as a brief description of the circumstances of the mishap. The description is
in Dutch, like the rest of the magazine, but we think the main issues are understandable anyway. Here's a small example of what it looks like:
On this page you can find a unique service. You can search through all crash data which we have gathered in our database and published in
our magazine since 1993. The years before that are far from complete but will be eventually. The detailed story are not included here
unfortunately, you have to read Scramble Magazine for that. You can freely search for aircraft types, serials,
operators and units and the date of each mishap for easy reference.
The kind of mishaps and aircraft types that are included in this database are described in the help file. The database is updated
each month. Recent high profile accidents and incidents are updated when new info becomes available to us.
What is included in Stoffer & Blik and what is excluded? First of all, although we try very hard, no database is ever complete.
For military accidents and incident the rules are simple: almost everything is included. "Almost" because we can not pretend to know everything.
Civil aviation is a different matter. We do cover small general aviation accidents and incident in the Netherlands but simply can't cover every
single-engine crash in the United States. The shear volume of General Aviation mishaps worldwide makes it impossible to cover these completely.
But some small plane crashes are included anyway because they are worthwhile to mention for various reasons.
Now what is included? For example, heavier singles like the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Cessna Ce208 Caravan and oldies like the venerable
Spitfire are covered. Aircraft with two engines are normally included. "Normally" because minor incidents with neglectable damage are
not covered. For example, a Beech 58 Baron who kisses the runway in Nowhere City after a not so soft landing, suffers a
gear failure and is barely damaged at all is not included. Last but not least, our definition of write-off and damaged is quite liberal.
The simple version is like this: write-off means it will never fly again (destroyed or damaged beyond repair), damaged
means it will be repaired most likely and fly again some day.
More information about the fate abbreviations can be found under the "?" button.
If you have anything to add feel free to use the "send updates" button
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