AIRLINE FIRM CHARGED
SEQUEL TO BRITISH DISASTER
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 18. The British Ministry of Civil Aviation has taken out a summons against Fairlight Ltd., owners of the Tudor airliner which crashed, killing 80 persons, on March 12, in the world’s worst air disaster.
The summons alleges that .one of the conditions of the aircraft’s certificate of airworthiness was contravened. Oniy three passengers survived when the aeroplane, with a crew of five, crashed at Llandow, Glamorganshire. The aircraft was returning with 76 Welsh supporters from the IrelandWales Rugby International match at Belfast.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26221, 19 September 1950, Page 7
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