APOLOGIES MADE
AIR INQUIRY DISSENTS (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. • Lord Pakenham, Minister for Civil Aviation, to-day apologised in the House of Lords for the manner in which he published his dissent from the finding of the court of inquiry into the Prestwick air disaster in October, 1948. He had asserted, in a statement issued with the official report of the inquiry, that the ground services at Prestwick did not hear the responsibility for the crash of the Dutch K.L.M. airliner, in which 40 were killed.-Lord Pakenham told the Lords that he could now see-the proper course was to have expressed his '• dissent, and make his explanation in Parliament. The Minister, for Air, Mr Arthur Henderson, whose name was associated with Lord Pakenham’s statement In dissenting from the inquiry, also apologised to the House of Commons on similar lines.—Reuter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 44, 2 December 1949, Page 3
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