SKYWARD TRAIL

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1931, Page 5

SKYWARD TRAIL

BANGKOK DISASTER DIRECTOR’S INJURIES. MORE HOPE OP RECOVERY. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) SINGAPORE, December 8. It is stated today that Colonel H. C. Brinsmead, Director of Civil Aviation in Australia, who was a passenger in the Dutch air liner which crashed near Bangkok, Siam, with the loss of five lives, is seriously injured. Colonel Brinsmead is suffering from broken ribs, injury to the lungs, contusion of the brain and partial paralysis. There is now more hope of his recovery. A later message reports his condition to be unchanged He took passage in the Dutch air mail liner when ho hoard of Air-Com-modore Kingsford Smith’s accident at Darwin. .

SPECIFIC CAUSE. WINDOW LEFT OPEN. OVERLOADING DENIED. (Tlmeo Cable.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, December 8, It is learned at The Hague that the cause of the Bangkok accident was a little aluminium window built at the request of the pilots in the aeroplane wing to enable them to leave the cockpit in case, of accident. The pilot forgot to close the window after it had been opened to free the cockpit of engine fumes. A message from Singapore denies that the monoplane was overloaded. It was carrying less than when it left Alor Star. The King of Siam has ordered, an inquiry Into the accident. MAIL CONVEYANCE. ALLAHABAD REACHED. (Received 10.30 a.m.) KARACHI, December 8. Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith ar-rived-at Allahabad at 7 o’clock this evening and landed by flare lights.