Show ARMY BOB MOM biffi TWO ENGINES OUT OF CS COMMIS SION ON T THE HE WHEN CRASH CAME bra barograph ph show how dirigible con can a tested heavy W wind d far half no hour safe before a being overcome in air IN JA J A lail failure lue of to two of the engines of the shen probably was a p primary ry cause a of the d iet ruction of the ship chip in the opinion on 0 f cd colonel IC C 0 hall bell army ay iy observer bar or or on lioard board do dunar the fatal 1 flights as a given here hen to the na as val out court of I 1 inquiry had fill 11 of 1 the h 1 engines 9 me been bass tune face honing colonel 12 i RII hall said it it would it have ave been more do probable able that the g great met airship would not have been drawn into the vortex of the storm wl which h wrecked her 1 I do n not belie believe ve however that origin engine power had bad anything to it do with the situation a after we war gilt got into the I 1 vortex ram of 1 the adorm in he wit th the Shapard shenandoah lub fought t the ila line for squall quail to in ohl ohio september e 8 3 for at least at half an abour hour before she broke up the beco barograph graph loo instrument lumm tit record introduced before the 1 naval I court of inquiry all avows this record establishes establish that the ship began its first rapid ascent at 4 26 a re ahti ture time rising jr froin an altitude of 1850 feet to an alti tude tell ot of 2980 feet fact in night car minutes carmies mits the craft then leveled off but two in minute to later at 4 36 she shot hot up almost like a brocket fr from 30 6 feet to in approximately te ten A non min utes all he her r ascent met halted at this altitude at 4 40 a in the shenandoah then fell abruptly 1765 feet in three minutes in is bringing up at an altitude of feet at this point the barograph ceased to function consecutively lieutenant glinton clinton H havill who was in produced trod as aa an expert maid aid it was his bis judgment that it ceased im aa a re suit of the instrument itself receive ing a violent bump or else the whole control car or in which it was located received such much a bump there them were blot blotcher blotches ches on the record made ad of the frame me tell ink as a that r in the barograph graph but it was not pos possible uble for the tha officers off ic era accurately to interpret 1 the blotcher blotches blot ches whether or the barro barograph graph ceased 1 to function when the control car broke off the ship chip could not be det determined a commander sidney M krass krame an other expert estimated that the con arol car fell only beat about 1000 feet and if that be co correct set the holograph barograph ceased old to work wark before the dir car ill fell testimony that lieutenant commander zachary lansdowne captain of the shenandoah never expressed any prate protest t or x reluctance to proceed to ta the west t with the shenandoah upon the western trip was given to the court by lieutenant Lien tenant commander C E rosenthal nativi gator ol of the wre aircraft ft the only observation bad itin C comander dur lansdowne made commander ro be bethal wit said wass was in casual conver er with me ine in which he said it was too bad the shenandoah had not hem been alil able a to make the trip during duong the ten tell days day immediately prele preceding september 2 when weather conditions condition were well nigh eight perfect as shown by the weather other maps up |