AKRON DISASTER
STRUCTURE OF AIRSHIP A KNOWN WEAKNESS NEW YORK. April 12 A naval inquiry iuto the disaster to the airship was wrecked with the loss of 73 lives off the NewJersey coast, was commenced to-day at the Lakelnirst naval air station. * Lieutenant-Commander Edwin Cochrane, assembly and repair officer of the United States Naval Air Station, said it had been planned to strengthen, on her return from the last flight, the Akron's structure in the area in which two of the survivors said that they saw two longitudinal girders break.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 9
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90AKRON DISASTER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 9
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