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WTINESSES TELL THE STORY OF TRAGIC AIR CRASH
OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. At the inquest on the six victims ? tae Gravesend air crash. Major J. G- Cooper, Inspector of Accidents n me Air Ministry, said the Secretary H ; , tate for Air, Lord Thomson, had “eclded to refer the whole of the (V™,' avai, able to the Aeronautical , n .™s? ttee of the Ministry and to ti» tfle ma tt er for further invesusation to that body. wreckage was scattered in a ji.. _ or ' ess straight line over a one and a-half miles. It ioii^H e( \ tbat the heav ier items were ii_„ ' j an ex treme westerly direceasm^ Dd j the articles in an h- y direction, having been carried -me wind. fnmJ a t„ WaS . what was to be expected curri n COmp ete ®tructural failure oc--o. hg at a giveu Point, saw related how they from of the machine dropping tken ih c } oac * s — firs t one of the wings, me tail and finally the fusilage.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1051, 15 August 1930, Page 9
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