CROYDON AIR CRASH.
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY. PREVIOUS ENGINE TROUBLE. (Received 10.5 p.m.) Router, LONDON, Jan. 27. The official inquiry into the disaster which overtook the London-Paris air express at Croydon was resumed to-day. Mr. Wilfrid Clark, inspector at Croydon aerodrome, deposed that the wrecked machine was thoroughly inspected before the fatal flight. Everything was perfectly normal. Pilot Hinchcliffe stated in evidence that he had experienced fluctuations of oil pressure and roughness in the engine of the wrecked aeroplane on previous flights. Ho said he had reported the trouble to the officials at Croydon and had also told the pilot Stewart to watch for oil trouble. He had been unwilling to fly to Paris on Christmas Eve because he had only just returned after a week's absence, and it was not his turn to go. Otherwise he would have been prepared to go with that machine after an examination, though not with a full load.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18929, 29 January 1925, Page 9
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