AN AIR TRAGEDY
AX AIR ENQUIRY. - (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June .18. The Air Ministry announces it has decided to order a formal investigation into the accident to tho air liner in the Channel yesterday whereby seven persons lost their lives. The composition of the Court will be announced at an early date.
Officials of the Air Ministry of Imperial Airways to-day examined' tlie wreckage which now lies on the beach at D ungeness. Newspapers correspondents state It has been established that, firstly, the,; air.liner got into difficulties through the engine shaft breaking and smashing two holes in the sump; secondly, the plane turned upside down m striking the water, so that the emcigency set in the roof was submerged, this accounting in some measure foi the loss of life. Throughout the night tlie wreckage was searched by the light of electric torches for the missing bodies of three, of the seven victims, 'but no trace of them was found.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 5
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160AN AIR TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 5
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