FATAL AIR ACCIDENT
Pilot Committed For Trial MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Hobart, March 5. After an inquiry into the air accident at Swansea on February 6, when an Air Force bomber crashed into a crowd of spectators and Mrs. A. T. Cotton and her daughter were killed, the Coroner committed Pilot Officer E. V. Lansell, of the Royal Australian Ah Force, for trial on a charge of man slaughter. The evidence disclosed that three Air Force bombers prior to the accident indulged in stunting and, contrary to regulations, dived within 200 feet of the ground. Pilot Officer Lansell’s explauation of the accident was that his machine was sluggish in leaving the ground, rising only three feet compared with his companions’ 40 feet at the scene of the accident.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 138, 6 March 1936, Page 10
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126FATAL AIR ACCIDENT Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 138, 6 March 1936, Page 10
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