Transport: Cavalier Crash

That Britain's airlines have not yet whipped the engine-strangling menace of carburetor ice (U. S. lines licked it in 1929 by heaters from the exhaust), was tragically demonstrated one afternoon last week. Less than two hours after Imperial Airways' four-motored flying boat Cavalier had left New York for Bermuda with eight passengers, a five-man crew, a series of terse, desperate messages began to reach the Port Washington base.

Over a windswept sea 322 miles southeast of Cape May, Cavalier suddenly radioed: "All engines failing—ice. . . . SOS . . . Landed okay ....

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