AVIAT ION ACCIDENT RATE
(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Colonel G. C. Price, Army Air Force flying safety officer, in a speech, said that flying accidents in the Army Air Forces during the war cost more than 26,000 lives, and destroyed 22,000 more planes than were destroyed by the enemy. Colonel Price urged the aviation industry to retard the already alarming rise in civilian flying accidents. He said that the number of civilian air crashes from the end of the war to October 31 were 70 per cent, greater than those in the corresponding 1944 period.
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Southland Times, Issue 25836, 22 November 1945, Page 5
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