LICENSES RESTORED
Australia and de Havilland DHB6 Planes NO STRUCTURAL FAILURE Melbourne, December 15. . Au announcement that licenses of DHB6 aeroplanes are to be restored as from to-day was made by the Minister of Defence, Hon. R. A. Parkhill, after be had received a communication from the Air Accidents Committee, following their examination of the Lepena at Hunter Island. The report indicates definitely that there was no structural failure affecting the safety of the aeroplane. BRITISH ASSUMPTION London, December 15. “It is only fair to assume that Mr. I’arkhill intended merely a temporary withdrawal of the certificate of DHS6 machines pending an investigation of the forced landing,” says Mr. Oliver Simmonds, secretary of the Parliamentary Air Committee, commenting on the restoration of the licenses. “I shall approach the Air Ministry to take up the question of investigating what was in the minds of the Australian authorities when they brought about the withdrawal,” he added, “as withdrawals are undesirable from the viewpoint of confidence in air travelling by the public or in the British export trade.” Imperial Airways cancelled arrangements for Indian aeroplanes to continue to Darwin on receipt of a Qantas Airways cable announcing that the company is resuming the Singa-pore-Darwin service.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 71, 17 December 1935, Page 9
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202LICENSES RESTORED Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 71, 17 December 1935, Page 9
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