CAPRICORNUS CRASH
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French Weather Bureaux Seem at Fault SECRET INQUIRX
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(Eeceived 2, 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, April X ' The Daily Telegraph 'a aviation writet says: "France is holding the Oapri-r cornns inquiry in seoret. It is undeis stoo.d that the evidenoa points to failure of the French meteorologieal eervice, also failure of radio communications from Lyons, to warn of ice-forming; conditions, which ougSt to have- beea transmitted but were not sent. It i« further suggested that xequests for position from .the Capricornus wewj either unanswered or the. answers yreifl not in time to be of use. On her maiden voyage to Egypt, on May 24 the Imperial Airways gi&nt flying-boat Capricornus crashed in the gnovf-clad Beaujolais Mountaans^ noa® Ouroux, 35 miles north of Lyons, The. four members of the crew WierO; kille4i They were: Captain A. Patterson; ihe first officer, Mr Klein; the flight clerk, Mr O.'Brien; the steward," Mr Jeffeoatfci The only passenger, Miss B. M. Coates, was injured. The wireless operator, Mr J. L. Cooper, was unharmed, M '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 64, 2 April 1937, Page 5
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