Ingalls Down

David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, last week set out to fly, as he often does, from Washington to Ohio. Meeting fog in the mountains of Pennsylvania, he flew too low, piled his machine up against a fence, crawled out unhurt, proceeded by train.

Mr. Ingalls' chief, Secretary Adams, presented a report last week to Congress on the causes of 150 fatal accidents in the Naval and Marine Flying Corps during the past five years. Prime cause of fatalities (35%) : tail spins. Factors for decreasing hazards: parachutes, better weather reports, more hours in the air per pilot.