' The Dead Witness of the R-101
On October 4. 1930, Britain's newest airship left Cardington aerodrome for a test flight, in the charge of Flight-Lieutenant H. Carmichael Irwin. There were fifty-four people aboard. At two o'clock on the morning of October 5, the airship crashed near Beauvais, France, and all but six of the fifty-four people aboard perished
Tonight's story tells how Flight-Lieulenant Irwin , in spite of having been killed in the crash, gave testimony the next day Produced by Joel O'Brien