ROYAL AIR FORCE
NUMBER OF FATALITIES ; .. - " 1 NOT GREATER THAN IN / FRENCH FORCE London, December 15. In the House of Commons, Sir Samuel Hoare (Minister of Air), replying to a question, said that the total: num- ' ber of persons killed in the Royal Air Force nt 1924 were 48 officers, one cadet, and 23 airmen; in 1925, 40 officers and 11 airmen; in 1926, 46 officers, 2 cadets, and 28 airmen. , Though the statistics of the brench Air -Force were not published it was stated in a debate in the Chamber of Deputies that there had been 13 fatal accidents on a single type of machine within two months. It was apparent 1 from other confidential information that the suggestion that there were fewer accidents in the French force was totallv inaccurate. The Prime • Minister (Mr. Baldwin) said that he could not appoint an independent committee of inquiry to investigate all circumstances of crashes.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 71, 17 December 1926, Page 11
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