ALEXANDRIA CRASH
REPORT AS TO CAUSE SHORTAGE OF PETROL LONDON, July <\ The Air Ministry's Inspector of Accidents, Major J. P C. Cooper, reporting on the wreck of the Imperial Airways liner City of Khartoum, which crashed with the loss of 12 lives n mile from Alexandria Harbour late in December, expresses the opinion that the disaster was due to petrol shortage. The Calcutta (lying-boats' tankago does not provide an adequate fuel reserve for the Crete-Alexandria section of the route, except in favourable weather conditions. Referring to alleged alterations to the machine's carburetter jet setting, Major Cooper says that oral instructions had been given relating to slowrunning jets with a view to improving taxi-ing, but the alterations had been eairied out on tho main jets through a misunderstanding. Tho alterations should not have been carried out in any' circumstances. The fault in the petrol gauges was a contributory cause of the crash.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22465, 8 July 1936, Page 13
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151ALEXANDRIA CRASH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22465, 8 July 1936, Page 13
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