London, July 15. connection with the loss the Imperial Airways airliner City of Ottawa, which was forced down' in the Channel on July 17 when en route {0 Paris, with the result} that seven passengers were killed and four, together with the pilot and mechanic injured, a report issued by the Air Ministry to-day confirms that given by Major J.P. C. Cooper, Inspector of Accidents, at the legal inquiry held at the Law Courts on June 25.
On that occasion Major Cooper said that a pair of studs on the jert side of the machine had "fractured in fatigue Confirming this, the Air Ministry report says that the mishap was unavoidable, but is likely to be very rare. It finds, however, that the Passengers were not properly instructed how to use the life-belts wailable for such an eventuality, although, it adds, there is no evidence that the deaths arising from the forced landing were in any way attributable to this fact. The Air Ministry recommends that such instruction should always be given future, It also recommends that machines which are not designed to alight on water, or which do not possess such reserve of power as will enable them to maintain height if one engine fails, should only start to cross the Channel at such height as will ensure that reaching land on the other side will be a reasonable certainty, In conclusion it adds that from July 1 next year no such machines will be used to convey passengers from Britain to the Continent—Reuter.
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