AEROPLANE CRASH.
“FLYING NOT UNDULY DANGEROUS.” CORONER’S OBSERVATIONS. LONDON, October 5. The French Air Union’s counsel assured the Coroner in the air smash inquest, that every precaution had preceded the departure of the machine, including an exhaustive examination. The Coroner said that flying was not unduly dangerous, and deaths from this cause were diminishi’ng, while safety devices were increasing. A verdict of accidental death was returned, there being no evidence to show what caused the fire.—(Sydney “Sun.”) (A giant four-engined passenger aeroplane travelling to Croydon from Paris, owned by the French Union, suddenly burst into flames and crashed at Hildenborough, in the South of England. All occupants—five passengers, including two ladies, a pilot and a mechanic—were killed.) ANOTHER FATAL SMASH. PARIS, October 5. A civilian aeroplane crashed flaming at Bordeaux, its two occupants being incinerated. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 October 1926, Page 5
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