Source: Straits Times Monday, March 1, 1965
LONDON, Sun - A British instrument-making firm said here last night their insurers would be "confidently resisting" a £1,500.000 claim by the state-owned British European Airways arising from a comet jet airliner crash in Turkey three years ago.
B.E.A. said on Friday, it would sue the instrument firm, S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd., to cover passengers' claims and the loss of the aircraft's hull.
The crash killed 27 people.
A spokesman for Smith's said they were fully insured against the risk, and added: "Apart from the legal issue involved there is now considerable doubt as to whether the Smith's director horizon, in which a screw is alleged to have been loose, had anything to do with the accident."
- Reuter
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