RUSSIANS BLAME BRITISH FOR AIR CRASH
" Received Thursday, 10.50 a.m. BERbIN, April 7. , The Soviet news agency says that the Soviet Inquiry uommission investigaung the Viking'-Jak aircraft c.liision stated that the ViKing •iniringed the tlying regulation's by suaueiiiy snootmg out of a clouu oaiiK." 'xi.e commission said that the joiiisj.oii occurred over the Soviet ^.iiport ai lxanguw, hve mues 11*0111 aaiGW, vhere the Viking had no .nght without notifying tne Berlin air safety centre. It added that .ne ViKing' approached within half i mile of the Soviet airfield at Jaiigow, and as tne boviet airman reieased 1ns undercarriage to land, Jie ViKing hit the taii of the -.oviet aircraft. The report aileged that the BritLsh admmistration at Kladow did not inlorin the Berlin 4 air sai'euy centre of ihe Viking's liight, so the .aieiy centre couid not infonn tne iovxet airport. Tne repurt sug,'gests the setting ' up of a jonn 'ooviet-British -Inquiry Commission. Britisn officiais de'scribed as jaipuuiy urniue ihe report tnat- the J ikxng suaueniy siiot out of a ,ie au uaiiiY.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1948, Page 5
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