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AIR FORCE FATALITIES. QUESTION RAISED IN COMMONS. (Pie«B Aeftociation—Ry Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON December 0, (Received Dec. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) Flying-officer Purvis was killed through his machine stalling at Hawkinge (Kent). This makes the eighty-first Air Force fatality during 1926. In the House of Commons later in the day Mr L. Hore-Bclisha asked, in view of the increasing number of Air Force fatalities, if Mr Baldwin would devote a day before the adjournment for discussion. Mr Baldwin said that this wa’s impossible before the House rose on December 15. He was satisfied that all precautions were being taken. Mr Hore-Bclisha said that grave misgivings existed in the country on this question. He drew attention to the smaller number of fatalities in the French Air Force, which was treble the size of Britain’s. Sir Philip Sassoon (Under-Secretary for Air) replied that the French force was not double the strength of the British, but the number of accidents published in the French press was ludicrously under-estimated.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19970, 11 December 1926, Page 13
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