CRASH IN TUNIS
HOW CAPETOWN FLYERS MET DEATH ERROR IN FLYING JUDGMENT British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The stoi-y of how Squadron-Leader Jones-Williams and Flight-Lieuten-ant Jenkins met their deaths in Tunis while they were attempting to establish a record for a non-stop flight from England to Capetown is told in a statement issued by the Air Ministry. The evidence secured by officials who went out to Tunis to investigate the disaster shows conclusively that there was no failure of the engine or the aircraft. It is also certain from the log book, which has been recovered, that the occupants of the machine had kept exactly on their course and knew their position. The cause of the disaster is believed to have been that, owing to some unexplained circumstances, which may have included the failure of the aneroid, the pilot had reason to think the monoplane was several hundred feet higher than in fact it was. There was a severe storm in the area where the machine crashed. It is believed that the pilot only saw the hill which the machine struck at the last moment, and in an endeavour to clear it the monoplane lost flying speed and dived to the ground just over the brow. An additional factor possibly was the down-draught caused by the prevailing wind. „
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 878, 23 January 1930, Page 9
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218CRASH IN TUNIS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 878, 23 January 1930, Page 9
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