LOINA AIR DISASTER
THREE POSSIBLE CAUSES
SYDNEY, October 29.-
An interim report on the Loin a air disaster in Bass Strait on October 2 has been issued by the Minister of Defence, Mr. R. A. Parkhill.
The investigating committee expressed the opinion that one of three possible factors caused the accident to the airliner: (1) Loss of control by the pilot owing to engine failure: (2) fouling of control surfaces in the tail unit while the wireless aerial was being wound in: or (3) a sudden structural breakage which caused the wing or tail to flutter.
The committee found evidence of a small fire on a portion of the floor in the wreckage washed ashore. The fire might have diverted the pilot's attention from his real task and he might thereby have lost control of the machine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 11
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137LOINA AIR DISASTER Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 11
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