LOST AIR LINER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 518, 29 April 1933, Page 5

LOST AIR LINER

(Press Assn.-

NO POSITIVE EVIDENCE VOSS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR FIRE INQUEST ..CONCLUDED

— By Telegraph— Copyright).

(iRec. April 28.) London, Apmil 27. An open verdict that Voss, one of the victims of the air liner City of Liverpool, died from injuries, without conclusive evidence as to why or how he left the machin-e was returned. An air expert Major Mayo, gave evidence that the fire unquesitlionaibly began at the rear of the plane where it was first seen. There was nothing to indieate engine failure or other defects in the plane. Voss' clothing wa3 scarcely burned, indicating that he left the plane at the commencement of the fire, hut had not .a, paraehute. Dr. Ghosh, declared that Voss was neither pdsoned nor shot. It was impossible to say whether he had been blown out or jumped. The Goroner instructed the jury that th-ough Voss' reputation was not enviable there was no positive evidence that'he was responsible for the fire. The air liner City of Diverpool caught fir.e ia,nd crashed near Dixmude on March 28, when 15 persons were killed. Subsequently, an inquest was held into th'e death of Albert Voss when it wai3 suggested that he was responsible for causing the fine, as it was evident that he had left the machine before lit crashed. Evidence showed that Voss was financially embarrassed, had preiously attenipted to commit suicide, and had openly stated whilst indulging in a carousal the night before emharking on the plane that he would shortly receive great notohiety.