EIELSON'S CRASH
CAUSE EXPLAINED
FAILURE OF ALTIMETER
XOME, 30th January
An examination of Eielson's demolished 'plane explains the mystery how such an expert flyer, with half a million miles iof Arctic flying behind him, could have met with accident in the element ho had so often conquered. His altimeter registered 1000 ft, and stuck there. ElefsoH naturally believed himlialf to be flying at a safe altitude. Apparently he struck the side of a little snow hummock. Eskimos are still digging in the "drifts trying to find the bodies. Both men must have been killed instantly. It is possible that their remains were dragged away by bears, and some time may elapse before they sre found.
The failure of the altimeter was also suggested in the official theory as the cause of the fatal crash in Tunisia of the long-distance monoplane piloted by tho late Squadron-Leader Jones-Wil-liams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins, en route from Cranwell to Cape Town.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 9
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156EIELSON'S CRASH Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 9
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