FATAL AIR CRASH
NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH BY
MISADVENTURE '
(Received July 4, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, July 3
At the conclusion of the inquest on the New Zealander Colin Byar, one of two New Zealanders who were injured in an air crash in Surrey, a verdict of death by misadventure wag entered. An expert of the Air Ministry disclosed that Byar was participating in searchlight exercises on an exceptionally cold night at a height of 6000 feet. He gave the opinion that when Byar suddenly descended the change of temperature stopped the engines.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 3, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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91FATAL AIR CRASH Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 3, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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