NOT DUE TO SABOTAGE
AIR ACCIDENT AT GIBRALTAR. DEATH OF GENERAL SIKORSKI & OTHERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 20. The Air Ministry announces the report of the court of inquiry which investigated the cause of the Liberator accident at Gibraltar oii July 4 last in which General Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister, lost his life. This states that the accident was the result of the jamming of the elevator controls shortly after the take-off, with the result that the aircraft became uncontrollable. After a most careful examination of all the available evidence, including that of the pilot, it has not been possible to determine how the jamming occurred, but it has been established that there was no sabotage. It was also clear that the captain of the aircraft was a pilot of great experience and exceptional ability and was in no way to blame. An officer of the Polish Air Force attended throughout the proceedings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1943, Page 3
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155NOT DUE TO SABOTAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1943, Page 3
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