MEOPHAM AIR TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 40, 15 August 1930, Page 9

MEOPHAM AIR TRAGEDY

EVIDENCE OF EXPERT

FURTHER -INVESTIGATION TO'

BE MADE

British Official Wireless.

BUGBY, 13th August.

| In giving evidence at the inquest o«i the six victims of the Meopham air disaster, Major J. P. C. Cooper, Inspector of Accidents, Air.Ministry, stated that a minute examination had revealed n« evidence of faulty material or bad workmanship in the construction of r.th« aeroplane. He found no evidence, of negligence of any kind. The Miniater. of Air had decided to refer,tiie.wlioU of the evidence available to the Aeror nautical Committee of the - Ministry, and to submit the matter for: further; investigation to that body. :, : Major Cooper added that the wreckage was scattered in a more or-less straight line over a distance of a mile and a half. It seemed .that the heavier] items were found in an extreme wester* ly direction, and the lighter articles were found in an easterly direction, having been j#med by the wind. That. was what was to be expected from a complete structural failure accruing at a given point. ; Other witnesses related, how tlie.y saw parts of the machine dropping from the clouds, first one of the wings,; then the tail, and finally the fuselage. The Oovonei- said that lie was satisfled that the machine was not overloaded, and there was no evidence of faulty material or bad workmanship.