PILOT'S ERROR
FATAL AIR CRASH
(Received December 3, 1.50 p.m.) x OTTAWA, December 2.
A Board of Inquiry declares that thft Regina air mail crash was due to aa error of judgment by the pilot, Captain D. Imrie, who was killed with the co-pilot, Mr. Ralph Herald.
The board found that the pilot had failed to secure 1000 feet of altitude immediately after leaving Regina for Vancouver. The investigations revealed that the plane, after a quarter of a mile, hit the ground rose 50 feet, and crashed on its nose.
An aeroplane with trans-Canadian mails crashed and was burned shortly after leaving Regina* airport on November 18. Captain Imrie and Mr. Herald were burned to death. Four mounted police were eye-witnesses. They stated that, the engines seemed to be too quiet when the plane was taking off. The machine appeared unable to attain altitude and crashed nose foremost. The petrol tank exploded and flames enveloped the wreckage. The spectators were unable to rescue the trapped airmen. The engines, the propellers, and mail were strewn over the snow when the machine broke in two before it dived. Ten sacks, of mail were burned. The service was inaugurated last April, and there had been 900 flights from the Atlantic to the Pacific without previous accident.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19381203.2.93
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 10
Word Count
213PILOT'S ERROR Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in