"ملف ١/٦ I الطيران - الخطوط الجوية الإمبراطورية" [و‎‎١‎٧‎٣] (٤١٦/٣٦٠)

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do you not think that the Company could, with some advantage
to themselves, have asked me to furnish a report on what
actually happened from a landsmans point of view* I refer
to the first accident ®ned also the secGBndl and subsequent
accident to the aircraft*
5. I could also have been of some assistance, I
think, in providing the Company with some of the
Meteorological information which they apparently desire,
seeing that I and the various Political Agents at Kuwait
before me have kept full and careful official records of
maximum and minimum temperatures for every day in the year
since 1912. These include full records of rain, wind,
and aneroid Barometer readings#
6# I myself have been in Kuwait for 5 years (except
for a period of 3 months) and my personal experience of
weather phenomena is fairly complete. I only recently took
upon myself to advise your local Agent to suggest to
Imperial Airways that much highly useful information regard
ing Kuwait and the Persian Gulf generally can be obtained ,
from the book known as "The Persian Gulf Pilot", which \
every captain of a warship and passenger steamer operating
in the Gulf has in his possession jo ^
7. Mr.A1 cook had certainly very bad luck when he
had his "first" accident* Of this there can be no doubt*
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It was an "act of God" pure and simple, as I wrote and told
you at the time* But it mi^it easily have happened any-
tfhere else in the world;for the weather was stormy with
heavy clouds and thunder and lightening about. In other
words he happened to strike a "depression" presaging rain*
The "second" accident in my humble opinion, as a landsman
with no knowledge of aeroplanes, could have been avoided if
Mr.Alcock had had more experience of the Persian Gulf*
Everyone living in the Gulf region knows that in
the Spring months the wind is mostly a gentle one from the
south-east (KAUS). It is in the nature of a draught of
cool sea air filling the hotter vacuum of ’Iraq. At the