CRASH OF D.H. 108 PLANE
FILM FAILS TO SHOW CAUSE Received Saturday, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4. The film from the automatic recorder which photographed thc dashboard instruments at the moment of the disascer to the jetpropelled D.H. 103, in which Captain Geofirey de Havilland lost his iife, has thrown no light on the cause of the crash. The photographs show that the plane was flying at 558 miles an hour at 7,000 feet. The expert view is, therefore, that an unknown factor of compressibility operatine; | when the plane was near the speed of sound could not have caused the crash. The engine revolutions and turbine temperature also indicatec that the engine was functiomnr normally. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1946, Page 5
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