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Bandaged survivors of Edmonton air crash attend inquest on cloven victims Coroner says machine was in perfect condition
20-YEAR-OLD
PILOT
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938.
Pilot defied instructions while flying another machine
Jury agree no evidence of culpable negligence
DISOBEYED ORDERS
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Told To Fly Only Three Miles, Says Instructor
Protest was made over the absence of a statement from the Air Ministry at the inquest on the eleven victims of the recent Edmonton disaster, when an airplane set fire to two houses. The verdict was "Accidental death."
It had been revealed that Pilot-Sergeant Stanley Robert Morris, twenty-year-old Air Ministry clerk in civil life, who was killed, was disobeying his senior officer's instructions, and breaking Air Ministry regula- tions when he flew over Edmonton.
One morning, he had been seen | in another machine over Highgate again in defiance of orders.
"There
If a plot disobeys the order what do you do?-We report it to the in- specting officer at Hendon and he deals with it.
Dr. G. Cohen, the North Middlesex corner, was addressing the jury Captain Weighill said he had when Mr. Nell Lawson, counsel learned since that Morris had flown instructed for relatives of five of the lover Highgate on that morning. victims, interposed to say: has been inspection carried out by Air Ministry and the position the
Dr. Coben: No, no, no! I cannot allow you to make a statement.
Mr. Lawson asked that the Air
"I HAD CONFIDENCE IN HIM'. The coroner: When an experienced pupil is told to do certain things, does anybody watch to see if he does them?Oh, yes, but when there are forty planes on the airfield it in very
Ministry inspector should be called ou rely on a man's obedience?→→
as a witness.
Seated next to the coroner was Yes, if he is experienced, Captain F. S.Wilkinson (Ale Ministry
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Lawson: Did you watch inspector of accidenta) who sald Morris on either of the two occasions their investigation was still being he flew on that morning?-No, sir.
Was that because you had carried out and no conclusions had yet been reached.
much else to do?-No, I had con- Mr. Lawson: May I suggest thefidence in him. inquest should be adjourned so that
Mr. Lawson: Is it Д frequent we could have the result of that occurrence for pupils of the flying Inquiry?
school ht Holfeld to fly at low {altludes over adjoining populous
arcas?-No, it is not.
Dr. Cohen: No.
Captain Wilkinson said it was not the custom to make publie the results of their investigations into accidents, and the coroner agreed it was against the Interests of the State to give information on tech- nical points.
Dr. Cohen said that the evidence before them showed that the air- plane was in perfect working con- dition.
Ho added: "We have to consider whether the neeldent was not due in some way to the occupant of the machine.
"This pilot was flying that very morning and was seen in another district of London a good many miles from the airfield, although he had. had instructions to carry out certain exercises over the airfield"
Have you had to report pupils for disobedience in this respect?I be lieve there have been cases but I personally have never had one. have never reprimanded Morris.
Captain Welshill said Morris's plane was not fitted with radio and could not therefore be called down.
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Timothy Greenslado, ground gineer at Hatfield, sok Morris's plane, a Hawker Audex with a Rolls- Royce Kestrel engine, was in perfect condition.
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He examined the machine the previous evening and gave it further test on that morning.
Mr. Lawson: Had you done any- thing in relation to this between the time it came down on machine
that morning and when it took
The first propeller of the Queen Elizabeth, sister ship of the Queen Mary, is fitted to the ship's hull after the rudder had been put in place in the shipyard at Clydebank, Scotland. The size of the blades is shown by comparison with the workmen.
Man Who Is Making
A Map Of The Moon
Barnehurst (Kent).
For the past four years Mr. H. Perey Wilkins, a Wetshi engineer, living at Barnehurst, Reut. has been working on one of the most comprehensive maps la cxis- tence, It is a map of the moon. It is half finished. It should be completed in 1942,
NURSES ACT AS DOORKEEPERS off in the afternoon? Did you hear Mr. Wilkins is doing this Inborious the pllot's report?-Ne, but he would piece of map-making just for the fun The jury agreed that there was no have come to me if anything had of it, and with no hopes of remunera- evidence of culpable negligence by
been wrong.
tion other than the pleasure of know- Morris amounting to manslaughter.
Ernest
Stancombe, a rigger ating that he will have contributed With nurses, as doorkeepers, Hatfield, also said he examined the something of tremendous value to bandaged survivors of the disaster, machine the previous evening,
science and astronomy, and sad-eyed relatives of the dead,
"Life on the moon?" he said. The coroner: I don't say they the Inquest was held nt North ought to have been, but why were
am not satisfied that there isn't." Middlesex Hospital, where several not the controls examined on that of the injured people are being morning? They were roughly cared for.
There was nothing at all;
examined.
A model of an airplane similar to wrong with the machine, the one Morris crashed was before
the coroner. Near him sat Squn- dron Leader G; L. Carter from the onlcers.
R.A.F., Hendon, and other
Shirts for Statues
Captain R. G. Weighill, flying in- structor of No. 1 Elementary and Reserve Training School, Hatfield (at which Morris served) sald pupit was not allowed to fly solo till The authorities of Ostend have just tested by the chief Instructor.
Morris had his first flight on May
1937.
He had flown 101 hours forty minutes solo, and forty-three hours ten minutes under dual in- struction. He was fully qualified as regards the air.
Captain Weighill said he gave Morris instructions to do circuits,
anding and climbing turns that afternoon.
оп
made a decrce
That all statues of the sort one used
to seg
In, shops near the beach, Price ten Irancs each, Must no longer be shown in their
nudist state,
But must be shown (if at all) from
They should have been carried out within a three-mile radius of the So airfield, according to standing orders. Edmonton was twelve miles away.
The coroner: He was acting against Instructions to be out of the circunscribed area?-Yes.
said date.
Wrapped up as packets
In
raper jackets.
the shopkeepers, fearing trade will be hurt,
Advertise: "Statues, ten francs each,
in paper shirt."
And they say they sell mora Than ever before.
W. T. K.
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"There are several dark coloured spots, and they are in striking coo- trast to other shadows, because they move a considerable degree in between 24 and 48 hours.
"The late Professor Pickering be- lieved that they were due to large swarms of some low form of insect life,
"Tersonally, I think they are some low form of fungus in the damp spots. There are other things that lead me
belleve that there are traces of moisture and some slight atmosphere on the surface of the moon, Life,
Absolutely impossible!
maybe, but human life, definitely no!
"DAY LASTS A MONTH"
The day Insts a month on the moon. A fortnight of day and a fort- night of night. If there were any human life, It would be pretty un- pleasant to be baking for one fort- night and freezing for the next."
The craters and valleys of the moen on Mr. Wilkins' map are all named after philosophers and great men of the past, such as Aristolle and Plato,
The plains are named In Latin after seas. They are not really seas because they do not contain a drop
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