STILL UNCERTAIN
REASON FOR JET’S CRASH London, Oct. 4. A him from an automatic recorder which photographed the dashboard instruments at the moment of the disaster to the jet-propellec DH-108, in which Captain Geoffrey de Havilland lost his life, has thrown no light on the cause of the crash.
Photographs shows that the plane was flying at 558 miles an hour, at 7000 feet.
The expert view is, therefore, that the unknown factor of compressibility operating when planes are near the speed of sound could not have* caused the crash? Engine revolutions and turbine temperature also indicated that Ihc engine was functioning normally.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 October 1946, Page 5
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