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VligNG-YAK COLLISION SOVIET CHANGES ATTITUDE BERLIN, Apl. 16. The Russian authorities, in a letter to the British Inquiry Commission on the Viking-Yak air crash, said the Soviet was willing to change its attitude to the inquiry and hear German and American witnesses under certain conditions. The commission received the letter after the investigation was completed to-day. . . .. Major-general C. D. Brownjohn, the British chief of staff, said the Soviet letter was full of mis-statements and was unanswerable because it had already been published in the Sovietcontrolled newspaper. Another British spokesman said the letter was so belated that it could no. be taken as a sincere offer to cooperate. . „ .. .. The report of the investigation will be flown to London to-morrow. , British representatives waited in vain for almost an hour for the Russians to arrive to examine the remains of the Yak fighter which collided witn a Viking airliner over Berlin on Apr;, 15. The wing sections of both the crashed planes were taken to the Allied Control Authority building this morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26749, 19 April 1948, Page 5
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