SECRET INQUIRY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 5

SECRET INQUIRY

» Flying-Boat Crash at Brindisi (Received 9, 8.45 a.m.) 1 LONDON, Dec. 8. The Daily Telegraph' s Brindisi correspondent says that the flying-boat Oygnus, which crashed on Sunday, is still heavily guarded by police, but it is revealed that both the wings were torn out of the soekets. The nose was smashed off, the bottom of the hull was torn off and the aluminium overlay split over the whole macliine. The cabin floor disappeared and the ihstruments and cables are han^ing looSe. Both the port enginet w^re split. The Imperial Airways experts, whose inquiry is contiiiuing in secret, refused to express an opinion as to why there wa® such rujn. It is understood that tlie Italian air authorities already have concluded that the accident was not due to an engine( breakdoiyn or to iilefficiency on the part of the pilot or the crew. Sir John Salmond, marshal . of the Royal Air Force, who was injured in the crash, arrived to-day in Rome. He drove to a private hospital, where he may remain for several days. A nurse is accompahying him. He has difficulby m using his arms. Three British experts have arrived to open an official inquiry into the crash. Representatives of the British Embassy and of Imperial Airways and eigkt nurses met those rescued from the Cygnus crash upon their arrival at Rome_ They were latey sent in. an ambulanca a nurfling-hoae, ' • — i