THE FLYING-BOAT DISASTER
BRITISH OFFICER PREPARES REPORT (Received February 19, 12.20 a.m.) LONDON, February 18. The Messina correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says Squadron Leader Lang has prepared a report on the disaster to the Singapore fly-ing-boat, but is unable to divulge the contents. It is understood from a reliable source that nothing was wrong with the and that the machine was travelling at 100 miles an hour when she crashed. Two of the four engines were completely buried between two crags 1200 feet above sea-level. The aeroplane left Naples with 850 gallons of petrol, and had 750 left when it hit the mountain. The Italian authorities are also investigating the disaster. CRUISER' TAKES BODIES TO MALTA MESSINA, February 17. The cruiser Durban ftas taken the bodies of the men killed when the flying-boat K3595 crashed, to Malta.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21402, 19 February 1935, Page 11
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