KENT AIR CRASH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 9

KENT AIR CRASH.

SOCIETY IN MOURNING. pathetic' FACTS REVEALED. LONDON". July 22. Society is mourninc; the victims of the Kent stir disaster, says the Daily Mail. Several dinners and dances have been camelled.

Tlii: fact is disclosed thai the chief reason for \ iscouutess Ednam s flight to England was to complete arrangements for the erection of a miniature temple to the memory of' her little son Jeremy. Bho had spent, all her leisure hours since Christmas preparing a garden in his memory at Himlcy Hall, near Dudley, in which the temple was to have been erected. The old-world village of Him ley is plunged in gloom, for Lady Ednam was greatly beloved. Her five-year-old son Peter was playing happily in the house to-day, not, having been told of his mother's death. .\t Belfast Hags are flying at halfmast in lite Government, buildings in token of the Marquess of Dul'ferin's death. Preparations had been made for a merrymaking celebration of the homecoming of the Earl of Ava and bis bride at the Marquess' seat, Clandeboye, but have been abandoned, instead, arrangements are being made for the .Marquess' funeral on Thursdav.

'J lie Sl;o.'.oil says t]ic MiU'tpiess of Dufferin did not beliovo in flying. He lwd recently made Ins first flight and did not like it.

DEAD PILOT'S BOOK. CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS. LONDOX. July 2:1. I lie liite Colonel (1. L. Henderson's book, " A Complete Course of Practical Hying," which was published on tlie day ho was killed in the disaster near Gravcsend, .says:— " Ninety per eent. of accidents arc unnecessary. Sometimes (hey arc tho direct result of oft-repeated carelessness, wilful neglect or stupidity on the part of flic pilot or mechanic, although they arc very olten flue to foolhardy stunting for which pilots' fiancees pre responsible. Others aro caused by overloading, or the weather, or neglect to notice the, condition of. the engine when starting."