AVIATION FATALITIES
DECREASE IN BRITAIN "SAFEST YEAR" IN 1934 [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Jan. 5 Last year was tie safest the Royal Air Force ever exparienc-ed. In spite of further increases n strength and iu the amount of flyir g done, the number of officers and'men killed was less than half tho average figure for the cast eight years, and leas than one-third the figure for 1926, when the toll reached a peak with 85 lives lost in 54 fatal accidents.
In 1934 there were 19 fatal accidents involving the deaihs of 28 members. Twenty members i.aved their lives bv using their parachutes. In 1933 there were 38 fatal accidmts and 53 deaths.
The figures showing fatal accidents in tH Royal Air Fori© for the past nine jears aro a remarkable tribute to the increased safety of aeroplanes. For nine years the deaths from accidents were:— 1926, 85; 1927, 17; 1928, 76; 1929. 42; 1930, 65; 1933 75; 1932, 48, 1933, 53; 1934, 28. The causes of this marked improvement are probably to be found mainly in the improved ti ustworthiness in the aeroplanes and engines. Engine failure is a rarity in service machines to-day, and breakage of tny part of the airframe structure is almost unknown with British machines.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 14
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