19 MARCH 1927, Page 2

The Prime Minister made a most interesting cantrib tion to

the debate when he described hiS own inqui into the allegation that the number of accidents had bee excessive. He had come to the conclusion that VC few of the accidents could fairly be described as avoidabl The true source of accidents was in the personality an character of the pilot. Yet the man who did not FM in risks had not the temper for success in flying. deplored the practice of publishing details which soni times insulted a dead man and pained his relatio At worst the pilot had committed " some tiny error judgment " in an extraordinarily difficult occupaho The Air Force was " one of the marvels of our time.'

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