AGAINST ORDERS.
Pilot's Flight That Ended in
Eleven Deaths.
4 EDMONTON CRASH.
(Received 10 a.m.)
LONDON, September T.
It was disclosed at the inquest at Edmonton, Middlesex, where a 'plane crashed on top of two houses, causing 11 deaths, that the pilot, Sergeant S. R. Morris, was acting against instructions in flying in that district.
The jury returned a verdict that the deaths were due to accidental causes.
The Air Ministry intimated that it would not disclose the findings of its own inquiries into the case, as it was a service aircraft.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 11
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