DEATH OF PILOT
Auckland Air Tragedy FINDING OF COURT A finding that the. death o£ Mr. Cyril Herbert Olsen, the Auckland /kero Club pilot, who was killed at Mangere, was due to an uncontrolled dive from 2500 feet with the engine of his machine running, has been returned by the special court of inquiry set up to investigate the circumstances of the tragedy. The decision of the court, which comprised Squadron-Leader L. M. isitt, SquadronLeader J. Seabrook and Flight-Lieuten-ant S. Wallingford, was announced yesterday by the Minister of Defence, Elon. J. G. Cobbe. “The cause ot the dive’ cannot be definitely ascertained,” the court stated in its finding, “but it is considered there is a possibility that the pilot collapsed, as no attempt was made to throttle back or switch off the engine. The flight path of the machine was such as to be consistent with this happening.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 11
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148DEATH OF PILOT Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 11
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