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AIR DISASTER.
LONDON-PARIS EXPRESS; ' BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Dec.- 30, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. At the inquest ,on the victims of the Croydon air disaster on December 24, the coroner in opening his . address said .that the disaster was the most terrible in the history of civil aviation in England. He deeply sympathised with relatives and friends. He trusted that it might comfort them to know that there was reason to believe that the pilot and passengers were all unconscious before they reached the ground or immediately upon, impact. Their injuries were terrible, but their sufferings were mercifully short and probably in nowise commensurate with the injuries.— Reuter. . [The London-Paris air express crashed within a few minutes of leaving the ground at Croydon, and •the pilot and passengers were killed. It was stated,, that the machine had been thoroughly tested just prior to the accident and found, satisfactory.]
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 December 1924, Page 7
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