IOR/R/15/2/1686

The file contains correspondence, with enclosures, between the Political Agency at Bahrain and the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) relating to the crash of BOAC flying boat number G-AHZB on 23 August 1947. The aircraft crashed into the sea on landing, killing ten of the twenty-six passengers on board. An inquiry was carried out by the Political Agency in partnership with the Bahrain State Police.

The file contains the following papers:

• certified statements concerning the loss of personal possessions by some of the survivors (folios 3-8);
• witness statements and findings of the Political Agency court inquiry into the cause of death of the ten casualties (folios 10-13);
• reports on the cause of death of each casualty by Ronald Cochrane, Chief Inspector of the Bahrain State Police (folios 15-24);
• medical reports on the cause of death of each casualty (folios 25-30);
• notices of death for each casualty, completed by Geoffrey Parker, Bahrain Station Superintendent for the BOAC.

Folios 46-47 are internal office notes.