Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: Pete Mellor Subject: Re: Gordon Corps X-Submission-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 21:26:41 GMT Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <10689.9212082126@csrsun8.cs.city.ac.uk> Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: 08 Dec 92 15:51:14 PST Edwin, > Can you provide me with any more details on the death of Gordon Corps. The following appeared in The Guardian, Saturday, August 15th 1992, p26:- Triple Tragedy in Nepal ----------------------- Bill Raeper, Martin Hoftun, Gordon Corps [Helen Kidd provided an obituary of Bill Raeper and Martin Hoftun, two British writers who were passengers on the Thai Airbus which crashed in the Himalayas on July 31st, killing all on board. Norman Barfield wrote the following about Gordon Corps.] Gordon Corps, one of Britain's most distinguished and accomplished test pilots, has died of mountain sickness in Nepal, aged 62. He was acting as deputy flight safety director with a team of Airbus Industrie on its way from Katmandu to investigate the Thai Airways crash on the Talkuassir mountain at 11,500ft. He was a graduate of the de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, Hatfield, and his career took him to the RAF, to the Armament and Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down, and then to the Air Registration Board. He became chief test pilot to the Civil Aviation Authority in 1980. The development of major European commercial aircraft is now in the hands of the Airbus Industrie consortium and Gordon Corps took the significant step of joining AI in Toulouse in 1982 as an engineering test pilot. In the intervening 10 years, he has been involved in flight-testing the Airbus A310, A300-600 and A320 airliner family, with special responsibility for flying qualities. ----------------------- I'm sorry. That is all the information I have. Peter Mellor, Centre for Software Reliability, City University, Northampton Sq., London EC1V 0HB, Tel: +44(0)71-477-8422, JANET: p.mellor@city.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------------------