RlOl SHOULD HAVE KEPT ALTITUDE OF 3800 FEET.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, October 9. The French airship expert, M. Kapferer says that a vessel of RlOl’s length should keep at an average altitude not less than five times its length, thus she should not have got below 3800 feet. According to present reports she was never above 1400 feet. 1 M. Kapferer dismisses the suggestion that the pilot might have made a mistake j.ust before the fatal plunge. British pilots, he said, were too skilful to make blunders of that kind, but Ihe route chosen was perhaps rather rash.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19197, 10 October 1930, Page 1
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