ACCIDENT RATE
SAID TO BE APPALLING IN LUFTWAFFE ON ACCOUNT OF SHORT TRAINING. DIFFICULTY IN REPLACING LOSSES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 26. The recent deaths of four prominent officers of the Luftwaffe give some idea of the Luftwaffe’s appalling accident rate, because it can be only seldom that air chiefs have to travel in aeroplanes, says the aeronautical correspondent of “The Times.” For many months information reaching Britain has indicated an almost crippling rate in the Luftwaffe training and other accidents. Great numbers of pilots and crews have been killed near the training schools in eastern Germany. The accidents are believed to be due to a cutting down of the training period. Some of the German pilots and crews who have been shot down during night raids on Britain have been trainees, and others have been from the training schools a few days or weeks. This seems to indicate that Field-Marshal Goering is finding difficulty in replacing the airmen who have been killed on the Eastern front and elsewhere,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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171ACCIDENT RATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1941, Page 5
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