DUTCH AIR CRASH
LIGHTNING THEORY SUPPORTED NO EVIDENCE OF ATTEMPT TO LAND THE HAGUE, December 2t. The Royal Dutch Air Line,- in a statement, says that the Douglas machine which crashed in the desert was struck by lightning. There is no evidence of constructional fault. A Bagdad message states that air line officials waded 100 yards through a swamp to reach the machine, which • was lying upside down in water. The police allowed nobody to approach within five miles of the wreckage. M. Geysendorffer, one of the senior pilots of the line corroborates the theory that the machine was struck by lightning. An official declares that the vessel was flying on the usual route from Cairo to Bagdad. All the instruments indicate that it was maintaining its usual height and was not attempting to land. [There are few known instances of being struck by lightning, though there have been many instances of safe flights through severe thunderstorms. Only about a year ago an Imperial Airways machine was crossing; the Channel and was struck, a window being broken and the radio apparatus damaged. No damage was done to the machine itself.]
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21356, 26 December 1934, Page 9
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