SAFETY OF AVIATION
BRITISH AIR ROUTES A STRIKING COMPARISON. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 21. (Received Juno 22, at 9.15 a.m.) Sir Sefton Branckcr (Director of Civil Aviation), who was a guest of the Colonial Institute at a luncheon, in emphasising the increasing safety of aviation, mentioned that since 1919 there had been only four fatalities on the regular British .air routes. Since Christmas, 1924, the services had covered 2,100,000 miles without scratching a passenger. H.o said: “If you consider tho French railways and tho London streets, I think yon will agree that aviation comes out well in comparison.” Sir Sefton Branckcr drew attention to Persia’s objections to British aircraft flying in tho Persian Gulf, thus holding up the extension of the CairoBasra service to India.
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Evening Star, Issue 19589, 22 June 1927, Page 5
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