THE AIR DISASTER.
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY.
PILOT'S ACTION JUSTIFIED.
SIR SEFTON BRANCKNER’S VIEW,]
(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.)' (By Telegraph.— Press Assn. —Copyright.), (Received June 2'B, 12.10 p.m.)
LONDON, June 28. At the inquiry into the ces surrounding the disaster of the , City of Montreal, the air liner which ! crashed in the Channel recently, several of the passengers being killed, j Major-General Sir Sefton Branck- j ner, director of civil aviation, in giv-t ing evidence, expressed the opinion that the pilot was right in nursing his engines. He might have run the engines to the limit with a view to reaching land, but failure to do so would have imperilled everybody. A pilot should not be fettered by instructions. He was captain of his ship. I Mr Colefax asked: - “Do you regard this two-engined type as antiquated compared with more recent three-engined planes? ”
Sir Sefton .Brcakner: “Every aeroplane which'ls a year old Is obsolete,” but he added that they were perfectly rellbale. z
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17750, 29 June 1929, Page 7
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