AIR MISHAPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 10

AIR MISHAPS

INQUIRIES ORDERED

BOARDS ANNOUNCED

Two recent air fatalities are to 7 be the subject of official inquiry, and pror.l ceedings at both will'be open to the public and, the Press, according to a statement made by the Minister in; Charge of Aviation (the Hon. F. Jones) last night. The first will concern one on March 23, when Mr. A. Smith and Mr. J. Hamill, both of Pungarehu, were lost when flying from Nelson to Wellington, and another .on June 2, when a Wellington resident was killed in an aeroplane crash near Stratford. >• < ■ . ■ ■ ■ Mr. Jones said that in the* case of the Cook Strait accident the board would consist of Mr. W. F. Stilwell, SM Fliiit-Lieutenant H. B. Burrell, o' the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and Flight-Lieutenant 'A. T. Orchard, of Cook Strait Airways. For the inquiry into the Stratford accident, the board would consist of Mr. W; F. Stilwell S.M.; Mr. J. M. Buckendge, senior assistant to the Controller of Civil Aviation, and Flight-Lieutenant A G; Gerrand, of Union Airways. Both Flight-Lieutenants Orchard and Gerrand have been selected from a panel nominated by, the Council of the Air Pilots' Guild. , . The Cook Strait inquiry will be held at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, on Tuesday, September 21, commencing at 10 a.m., and the other inquiry will be held at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, September, 2-, commencing at 10 a.m.