FLYING BOAT CRASH

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 February 1935, Page 5

FLYING BOAT CRASH

REPORT PREPARED '

NOTHING WRONG WITH ENGINES. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Messina correspondent says that Squadron Leader Lang prepared a report at the scene of the disaster to the flying boat K. 3595, but is unable to divulge its contents. It is understood from a reliable source |hat nothing was wrong with the engines, and the K. 3595 was travelling at 100 miles an hour when it crashed. Two of the four engines were completely buried between two crags 1200 feet above the sea. The aeroplane left Naples with 850 gallons of petrol, and had 750 left when it hit the mountain. Italian authorities are also investigating the disaster. The cruiser Durban has taken the bodies of the air victims to Malta. The K. 3595 was a Short Singapore TTT- type of flying boat, the biggest which has yet gone into general service. It was a biplane ‘of a loaded weight of 275,000 pounds, fitted with four RollsRoyce Kestrel engines, and had a top speed of 145 miles an hour. She was one of four which left Pembroke Dock on 15th January on a formation flight to the Singapore Base for the ■ roequipment there of No. 205 Squadron.