Recent Air Force Tragedies
Received Wednesday, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 5. Amazing evidence was given at the inquest into tho victims of recent Air Force crashes. Witnesses stated that no stations of the Royal Air Force were equijjped v.-ith instruments for blind land and on the fatal day tho wireless station at Finninglcy was undergoing repairs with the result that the planes could not get weather direction reports when 10-t in the fog.
A verdict of accidental death due to abnormal weather conditions was returned.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 5, 7 January 1937, Page 7
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