BROADBENT FLYING HOME
Real Reason for Resigning His Post " SYDNEY^ April 6. Mr H. F. Broadbent explained to-day that the airline company with which he was associated had never asked their pilots to fly in bad weathef. Their motto has always been safety first. Mr Broadbent resigned in order to fly to Englaud. A Sydney message published yesterday stated: The well-known airman, Mr H. F. Broadbent, has resigned his position as air mail pilot owing to his objeetion to the principle of expecting the pilot to "get through" no matter what the conditions. He declared: "The get-through-despite-the-weather spirit and competition with surface transport are making airline flying too hazardous." •He thoroughly endorsed Imperial Aifways' slogan: "When the weather is bad we sit down, ' ' and added that some years would elapse before aviation couio^ hope to achieve with safety the regularity of train and boat schedules.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 68, 7 April 1937, Page 7
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