OPINION OF AIRWA'S' MANAGER
SUDDEN FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN (Received 14th January, 9.15 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, 13th Jnauary. Colonel Clarence M. Young, Pacific Coast division manager of Pan-Ameri-can Airways, in an official statement about the Samoan Clipper, said: “The most thorough possible search of the area indicated that the Samoan Clipper was destroyed by a sudden fire of unknown cause. . . The- aircraft was never at any time more than 75 miles from Pago Pago, and the farthest approximately fifty miles from port. Afterward, the cruise off the coast of the island was taken for the purpose of making the fuel load lighter before returning to its course for the routine landing at the base. “An uninterrupted chain of radio check signals followed the messages from Apia from 7.55 a.m. till 8.27 a.m., when the Clipper signed off by reporting the dumping of excess gasoline preparatory to landing at Pago Pago, which was then approximately six minutes ahead of the aircraft.”
The statement inferred that the clipper might have been cruising in a cricle during the two hours’ lapse of the log for the purpose of using up fuel, but the reports of Captain Musick dumping fuel preparatory to landing left that point vague.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 14 January 1938, Page 5
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