AIR CRASH INQUIRY
LACK OF PROPER EQUIPMENT CRITICISED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 8, 11.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, November 8. “Even if all the 10 radio beacons which the Civil Aviation Board are installing in Australia had been operating on October 25, the Kyeema would still not have been fitted with the necessary receiver to pick up signals,” said Squadron-Leader Wiggins, Radio Superintendent of Civil Aviation, to the Board at the inquiry to-day into the loss of the airliner. After Leo Little, for the Australian Institute of Air Pilots and Navigators, had read Departmental files which revealed that there had been considerable delay while the Board negotiated for the hire of a ’plane for testing beacons, Wiggins, while agreeing that there had been delays, said that they did not affect the position. Correspondence revealed that the Board’s Superintendent of Flying Operations, D. Ross, had said as long ago as February that it would be a matter of very grave concern if, during the coming winter, delay resulted in one serious accident. The inquiry adjourned till tomorrow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21189, 9 November 1938, Page 9
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