Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05
Air Minister, Lord Thomson,
Among Victims as 100000
Cubic Feet of Gas Ignite
DIRICIBLE ON PIONEER FLIGHT
TESTING OUT ROUTE TO INDIA
Scenes of Horror Greet Rescuers Who
Are Able to Drag But Seven, Badly
Manned and Burned, From Inferno.

(sundayHritains
completely
Cardington, England flight to India
The airship Of
Thomson government
burned to death with of the arshp
plemen of 50 officers, and
Only All of these badly burned
manned rushed the Beauvais hospital after ecev
occurred pm Saturday.
gale blowing in from the channel.
in
The big arhp cruising at an altitude 400 feet on her way
south Bordeau crashed into farmers wooded land the vii
age of Alonne.
BY neighboring farmers by sound
reached field the pride of Britans dgbes
fercey burning flames.
The authorities the Beauvais prefecture were notified by tele-
phone police
too late than of all the brave and dis
nguhed set heeruy for the East yesterday after
ministry officially ascribd the disaster high wind
They said the R1o1 hured downward m the woodland burst into
flames and exploded.
Wind Strikes at Midnight
early evening beap rising
heradng out the Atlantic 1t struck
smoking permitted
dered possible of the explosion Dispaties in the
counts OF the crash inclined many to think So but the official version
police blamed upon the wind
Britain's foremost air
craft authorities aboard the R01 They included Sir Seton
Brancke director of civil aviation Maj G. Scott commander of
the R3 and Wing Commander r. Comore director arshp
development
French Ministry's Statement.
communique ministry
ministry dirigible
messages every minutes.
"At 1:50 $3.50 Saturday. the dgbe its
position mile quarter north of Beauvais After this
message received direct from the ship.
Later it learned that the digible probably in trouble
through bad weather down low altitude Shortly after
doubtless the violent wind the
dgb crashed to the ground in woodland few miles south of
caught exploded victims gravely injured,
the debris transferred to the Hospital
Beauvas LaurensEyna minister of left Immediately for the
of the disaster"
SO Persons Were Aboard.
said that persons including
passengers crew, R-1O
The police modified all the available frmhands OF the region
we'll citizens Beauvas
for bodies
They dozen strewn through
the wooded land where the airship crashed.
is believed that leaped from the gondoa
low altitude when she coming
a
hampered their
specializing smoking airshp
had played in the disaster For the moment
Sible to
Survivor Telephones
October Sunday engineering
staff of the RO survivor the disaster that overlook the giant
dgibe telephoned
this morning n the
1--WE crashed top OF HILL" he said
There warning AS the airshp urched the
burst into then crashed"
Two other survivors Of the disaster H.
savory Both members of the engineering staff.
LONDON Sunday QF9-Lord Thomson, minister
the government persons
giant air liner RO1 which blown Beauva
this morning
Sir Seton Brancke director of civil aviation; Wing Comdr r.
airship development,
aman and of the historic among
the IL passengers.
totaed airship commanded by
Flight Lieut. H C. Irwin The navigator Squadron Leader
Johnston, the first officer Lieut. Comdr.
Flight Lieut. Irwin at the controls when the airshp
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