Sabotage Not Suspected

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 11

Sabotage Not Suspected

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

BOMBAY, Mar. 10. Sir Giles Guthrie, head of 8.0.A.C., said in Bombay yesterday he did not suspect any sabotage in Saturday’s Boeing 707 air disaster on the slopes of Mount Fuji.

There was no mid-air collision. no fire in the air, and no explosion, Sir Giles Guthrie said on a stop here on his way back to London after an investigation trip to the crash scene, where 124 people died.

“We must wait until the investigator comes up with something positive,” Sir Giles Guthrie said, noting that it might be some weeks before the real cause of the crash.

the first for 8.0.A.C. in 10 years, was known.

Millions of British television viewers tonight saw a dramatic 30-second film of the crash.

The film showed the last moments of the giant plane as it plunged to earth. A commentator of the Independent Television News Company, which had the film flown to London from Tokyo, said the plane “appeared to be falling in a horizontal position.” It also appeared to spiral before crashing into Japan’s sacred peak. A documentary film unit on Mount Fuji broke off work to shoot the crash. It was believed to be the first time a major air crash had been recorded by cameras.

8.0.A.C. technicians have had a private showing to see if the film will help their investigations.