DAKOTA AIRCRAFT CRASH
TWENTY DEAD Received Thursday, 12.20 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. Further details of the Dakota aircraft which crashed at Le Bourget, and which was reported yesterday, reveal that several survivors owe their lives to the fact that the plane hit a housetop before crashing into a factory, says Reuter's Paris correspondent. The impact on the housetop killed a stonemason who was working on the house and ripped a hole in the fuselage through which most of the survivors ,were hurled before it crashed into the factory. It was ofhcially stated to-night that twenty are dead, comprising sixteen passengers and four of the French crew.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1946, Page 5
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