HILLMAN AIR CRASH
CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
PILOT'S LACK OF SKILL"
(Received January S, 1 p.m.) LONDON, January 7. The ' Air' Ministry's Inspector of Accidents attributes the Hillinan crash to the pilot's lack of skill in navigation. Apparently lie' attempted to fly .within sight of ground landmarks instead of above the -clouds wtiere: the I -weather was' good~ .The pilot in attcmpLing to pick up the coastline again, flew into the sc'a. ii'ot distinguishing its glassy surface through the mist. The lives of six passengers and the pilot wore lost on October 2 when an aeroplane belonging to Hillman Airways crashed into the Channel three miles from Folkestone- while proceeding from Aliridgo, Essex, to Le Bourgct. Wreckage' was found by the German cargo steamer Lcnnder, and the crosschannel steamer Biarritz brought five of the bodies into Folkestone.1 ■was falling and visibility was • very poor, at tho time of the disaster. Three of the passengers were French, two British, and ono American. The pilot, AT. R. Bannister, was a -war-time airman of great experience. This was the first accident Hillman. Airways has had.
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Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 7
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181HILLMAN AIR CRASH Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 7
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