Comet Crash Allegation
(NZ.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, July 7. A British member of Parliament has alleged that the Dan-Air Comet airliner that crashed into a mountain peak near Barcelona on Friday, killing all 112 people aboard, was using a highly-unreliable type of navigational facility from Barcelona Airport. A Conservative, Mr Norman Tebbit, who is a former airline pilot, told the House of Commons: “The airport may or may not be wellequipped, but the aircraft was using, immediately before the accident, a highlyunreliable type of navigational facility, a non-direc-tional beacon.” Mr Tebbit sought an assurance from the Minister of State at the Board of Trade (Mr Frederick Corfield) that such beacons would be replaced by more modern equipment
Mr Corfield said that this was the responsibility, primarily, of the Spanish authorities. He added that it was too early to speculate on the cause of the disaster.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32343, 8 July 1970, Page 13
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