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...Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah sat for a second week at Lakehurst, N. J. The chief testimony taken dealt with air conditions at the time of the disaster and the chief witness was Captain Anton Heinen, German Zeppelin pilot, for years employed as a pilot and tester by the Delag Co., makers of the German Zeppelins...
When Captain Heinen took the stand he was questioned with some asperity because he had said previously to the press: "They will appoint the usual whitewashing inquiry board to camouflage this disaster and its cause, but every man at the Air Station knows why it happened. That accounts for the tense air over there at Lakehurst. I consider the Lakehurst crew responsible for taking off those valves...
...Heinen: "No, it was not possible. The piling up of evidence of the danger was so great and so varied that it would have been on this occasion impossible for me not to have seen it. ... My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as an aerologist is not changed with this flight. It is the same now as it was before, for I know that he was making his observations as closely as he possibly could. I only say here that he made a mistake in judgment because he had not quite enough experience. My opinion of Captain Lansdowne as a pilot...
...close of his testimony Captain Heinen said...
...Captain Anton Heinen, German dirigible expert acted as advisor during the construction of the Shenandoah. He referred last week to the report that eight of the 18 safety valves in the ship's gas bags had been removed before her trip: '. would not call it murder, but I cannot put it too strong that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which...