DISTURBING ASPECT
NAVIGATION BEACON NOT IN OPERATION FINAL TESTS AND ADJUSTMENTS DELAYED (Received 26th October. 11.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. It is estimated '.'..at the Kyeema crashed at 200 miles an hour. The plane had flown thirty miles past Essendon Aerodrome and was off its course. Mr H. Gloe and his wife were flying to Tasmania on their honeymoon. Since the beginning of 1934 115 lives have been lost in civil aviation in Australia. Fifty of these victims have been killed in disasters to airliners and the others killed in accidents to private planes One of the most disturbing aspects of the Kyeema disaster is the fact that the Lorenz short-wave radio navigation beacon which has been installed at Essendon Aerodrome for more than a year was not and never has been in operation, because the Civil Aviation
Department has not completed the necessary final tests and adjustments.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1938, Page 5
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148DISTURBING ASPECT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1938, Page 5
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