HOW PILOT WAS KILLED.
Roy Ohadwiclc, Resigner of the Lancaster bomber and more than 30 other types of British _aircraft, who was killed during the test flight of a Tudor 2 aircraft last August, died th rough a fault in the assemblv of the aileron eontrol circuit, states a report upon the accident released by the chief inspeCtor of accidents for the Ministrv of Civil Aviation, Air Commodore Vernon Brown. The aileron controls on this particular aircraft, says the report, were assembled in suc.b a manner that they operated in a reverse sense to the normal. Aecording to the design requirements laid down for the plane, this should have been technically impossible but it was found that' through faiilty assembly it was possible for the pilot to reverse the controls without realising He was doing so.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1948, Page 5
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