Pre war Hawker Hart crash in Edmonton north London

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The Times of 8 September 1938 reported that the Inquest was held on Wednesday 7 September 1938 at the North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton.

Captain Weighill, an instructor at the Elementary Flying Training School at Hatfield, said that on an earlier flight that Sunday the aircraft piloted by Morris was seen over Highgate between 1200 and 1240 hours. When he landed he just wrote in the flight book that he had been doing what he had been instructed to do, no mention of his totally unauthorised excursion over Highgate. He had no authority the Coroner's Court was told to fly over Edmonton on the final fatal flight.

It was Mr Neil Lawson appearing for the relatives of the then deceased civilians, not a juror, who requested an adjournment pending a full RAF Court of Enquiry. His request was rejected by the Coroner on the grounds that such matters were never revealed to the public.

Several of the injured died after the inquest.