This is truly an amazing look at how radio was viewed while still in its relatively early days.  

Really, the spate of disasters was caused by aviation being in its absolute infancy.  Man thought he could fly anywhere using wooden propellers and hydrogen-filled dirigibles and not expect anything to go wrong.

Well, wrong.

I think this magazine article from June 1933 Modern Mechanix is also a great period read for its use of speculation and accusation, without fact, as a means to prove a point that radio is dangerous.  

Or at least suggest that.  

My favorite line about radio waves causing explosions and air crashes: “… an innocent radio operator perhaps miles away might have pressed his key or closed his antennae switch and sent a half-dozen souls streaking earthward in a furnace of flame.”

I wonder what this writer would say about Doppler Radar (and “heavy metal” radio stations)!

Click on this link from the www.ae5x.com/blog site for the full article!

^mp