FLYING-BOAT BADLY SMASHED
WRECK OF THE CYGNUS AT BRINDISI (Received December 8, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 7. The Imperial Airways flying-boat Cygnus, which crashed when taking off at Brindisi on Sunday with the loss of two lives, is still heavily guarded by police, but it is revealed that both wings are tom out of their sockets, the nose is smashed off. the bottom of the hull is torn off, the aluminium overlay is split over the whole plane, the cabin floor has disappeared, the instruments and cables ars hanging loose and both port engines are split, says the Brindisi correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. The Imperial Airways experts whose inquiry is continuing in secret refused to express an opinion why there was such ruin. It is understood that the Italian air authorities have already concluded that the accident was not caused by a breakdown in the engines or the inefficiency of the pilot and personnel.
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Southland Times, Issue 23378, 9 December 1937, Page 5
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