This book presents a compilation of contemporary French material concerning the accident to the British R.101 airship near Beauvais in Northern France on 5th October 1930. The material is translated into English where necessary.
The original sources include French newspaper archives; the Le Bourget log of wireless traffic involving the R 101; French eye witness statements and accounts covering the transit across Northern France, Beauvais and Allonne; an eye witness account of the scene of the crash by one of the first attendees; French Police notes on the position of victims within the wreckage and on fragments of wreckage found some distance beyond the crash site; their interview with Disley; the formal French Police Report, and the formal French Accident Report compiled by the Service Technique de lÕAŽronautique de France., R.101, airship, dirigible, , Alastair Reid| | 250PAGES