INQUEST ON VOSS.
LOSS OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS ’PLANE. SON DEFENDS HIS FATHER’S MEMORY. SORE HE DID NOT SET FIRE TO MACHINE. LONDON, April 4. “I shall inquire as to whether Voss took poison aboard the air liner and whether he became strange and set fire to the aeroplane,” said the Coroner, in opening the inquest at Salford on Albert Voss, of Manchester, who jumped from the Imperial Airways liner City of Liverpool when it crashed in Flanders. Hugo Voss, a son of deceased, gave evidence that his father was an unitikcharged bankrupt. Sometimes excitably he threatened suicide in such a fashion that the family regarded it as a joke. He added that he was sure his father would never do a dastardly •thing like setting fire to an air liner. The case was adojurned to April 27.
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Wairarapa Age, 6 April 1933, Page 5
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