REDUCED TO RUINS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23370, 9 December 1937, Page 11

REDUCED TO RUINS

THE CRASHED AIR LINER STILL GUARDED BY POLICE SECRET INQUIRY BY EXPERTS (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 7. The Daily Telegraph’s Brindisi correspondent says: The Cygnus is still heavily guarded by police, but it is revealed that both wings were torn out of the sockets, the nose smashed off, the bottom of the hull torn off, and the aluminium overlay was split over the whole of the machine. The cabin floor disapappeared, and the instruments and cables were hanging loose. Both of the port engines were split. Imperial Airways experts, whose inquiry is being continued in secret, refused to express an opinion as to why there was such ruin. It is understood that the Italian air authorities have already concluded that the accident was not due to engine breakdown or inefficiency on the part of the pilot or personnel. SIR JOHN SALMOND ARRIVAL IN ROME ROME, Dec. 7. Sir John Salmond, who was injured in the Cygnus disaster, has arrived here, and drove to a private hospital, where he may remain for several days, a nurse accompanying him. He has difficulty in using his arms.