DAMAGE TO FLYING BOAT
CRASH AT BRINDISI IN EFFICIENCY DISCOUNTED OPINIONS OF ITALIANS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 8, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 7. The Daily Telegraph's Brindisi correspondent says that the flying boat Cygnus, which crashed on Sunday, 3s still heavily guarded by police, but it is revealed that both the wings were torn out of the sockets. The nose was smashed off, the bottom of the hull was torn off and the aluminium overlay split over the whole machine. The cabin floor disappeared and the instruments and cables are hanging loose. Both the port engines were split. The Imperial Airways experts, whose inquiry is continuing in secret, refused to express an opinion as to why there was such ruin.
It is understood that the Italian air authorities already have concluded that "the accident was not due to an engine breakdown or to inefficiency on the part of the pilot or the crew.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19503, 9 December 1937, Page 11
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