Second Crash In 24 Hours

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 15

Second Crash In 24 Hours

f.\ Z PA. Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, March 6. Yesterday’s Mount Fuji crash was the second in japan within 24 hours and the third within the last month.

Only 19 hours earlier, a Canadian Pacific Airliner plane crashed at Tokyo Airport, killing 64 persons. A month ago, 133 Japanese died when a plane on a domestic flight plunged into Tokyo Bay. This year has been among the worst for aviation disas-

ters. Fifteen planes have crashed and 688 persons killed. The biggest crashes came: On January' 15, when a Colombian DC-4 crashed into the Caribbean off Cartagena and 54 died. On January 24. when an Air India Boeing 707 crashed on the slopes of Mont Blanc with the loss of all 117 passengers and crew. On January 27, when a West German Lufthansa metropolitan overshot the runway at Bremen Airport, killing all 46 people aboard. On February 17, when the largest aircraft in the world —a Soviet TU-114— crashed soon after takeoff from Moscow Airport on a flight to the Congo. Twenty-one people died and 20 were injured. Belly Landing (N.Z.PA.-Reuter —Copyright) i MIAMI BEACH, March 6. A Boeing 727 jet airliner belly-landed at Miami Airport yesterday. No-one was hurt. The Eastern Airlines plane had taken off for Newark, New Jersey, when the pilot found his landing gear had jammed He circled and landed safely.