LOSS OF A DIRIGIBLE
AN INVESTIGATION
(Received July 15, 830 a.m.)
NEW YORK, July 14
Investigation as to the cause of tho disaster to the big dirigible, Akron, at Atlantic City, and the resultant loss of Vaniman, his brother Colvin, and three others being killed—shoAvs that the explosion on the. airship, with which i\. was intended to make an attempt to cross the Aalantie, was caused through faulty construction alloAving 'the gas to escape over the engine exhaust.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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78LOSS OF A DIRIGIBLE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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