RETURN OF COMET AIRLINERS
Statement By Sir Miles Thomas (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. • Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, said in a message to his staff today: “The Comets will fly again. But when that day will come depends on a num- s ber of factors.” After crashes earlier this year Britain’s fleet of Comet jet airliners was grounded until the cause of the disasters had been explained and overcome. Sir Miles Thomas’s message said: “It is even at this stage inappropriate to make definite statements about the * precise mechanical causes of the disastrous troubles. Nonetheless sufficient has been disclosed to support the faith . that modified, tested and proven on the routes the Comets will fly again.'* Sir Miles Thomas also disclosed that * in spite of the grounding of the 2 Comets the corporation In the first quarter of the current financial year had made a profit of £65,000.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27405, 19 July 1954, Page 9
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