PROGRESS OF INQUIRY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 106, 1 November 1930, Page 9

PROGRESS OF INQUIRY

FRAGMENT OF LOG FOUND

FINAL ENTRY AN ISSUE

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 30th October. The Court of Inquiry into the KlOl disaster was resumed to-day. It has been elicited in the proceedings that the experts who examined the wreck reached the conclusion that no part of the main structure of the vessel broke in the air. The elevator control wheel was found to be set full. The explosion followed and did not precede tho crash. From a microscopic examination of the; cable of the elevator control all the indications were that it became severed after, and not before, the lire following ti-e crash. It was also made clear, on the author-1 ity of the Director of the Meteorological Office, that suggestions that the failure the altimeter might have produced, the disaster were not borne out by the evidence. This proved, according to the Attorney-General, that the instrument was reading correctly at the moment of the crash. 'is morning the Court began the hearing of witnesses, the first being Professor Bairstow, Chairman of the Committee entrusted with the examination of the Airworthiness of Airships. DISPUTED FIGURE IN LOG. A charred sheet of paper picked up close to the spot where the KlOl was wrecked was produced at to-day's hearing of tho inquiry into the disaster, and was stated by the Attornoy-General to be a page of the log of the airship. Sir William Jowitt said that the exhibit was of the utmost importance because it showed' tho revolutions of the engines and the cruising speed down to the time of the accident. He added: "The last entry was at 2 a.m. At that time the revolutions were perfectly normal, but the oil fuel pressure, instead of being from 30 to 31, as it had been all along, appeared to be only 3. . The numeral 3 at least was the only entry against that time. Whether this was at the moment of the crash, and there was no time to finish the' •entry, cannot be said. lam told that it was be- a matter of engineering practice that if you found your engine pressure at 3 you would stop your engine at once before making any entry." Sir John Simon, President of the Court, said that the man apparently did not complete the entry. It was stated that Cook, one i of the survivors, was the engineer in question.