TATSFIELD DISASTER
MONOPLANE ACCIDENT THE PILOT EXONERATED Received Jan. .17, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 16. At the inquest over the victims of the disaster to the Belgian triple-en-gined Savoia monoplane at Tatsficld, Kent, on December 10, a verdict was returned of accidental death, no blame being attachable to the, pilot. Major Cooper, an Air Ministry inspector, expressed the opinion that in bad visibility the pilot mistook the mast of the Biggin Hill aerodrome lor Croydon and lost flying speed, manoeuvring in order to avoid a collision with rising ground. The monoplane was on route from Brussels to Croydon, and crashed in a field, eleven persons being killed, including Sir John Carden. The crash was heard two miles away. Everything was smashed to pieces, and the bodies were terribly mutilated. The machine appeared to be in difficulties, the pilot apparently trying to gain height, ami crashed into the summit of Patsie Hill and then dropped.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 15, 18 January 1936, Page 9
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154TATSFIELD DISASTER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 15, 18 January 1936, Page 9
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