DIFFICULT TASK FOR POLICE.
Received Monday 7.0 p.m. BOGOTA, Feb. 16. Police roped together made a difficult descent of tne ravine at the bottom oi which they found 54 charred and iSanglsd bodies and the wreckage of most 0f the giant four-engined plane. They wropped the bodies in tarpaulins and began the iong arduous task oi hoisting them to the tori i.n hg which they do nh to complete till tomorrow: It was the second major Coiombian air crash in less than a month, the first being an Avianca DC 3 which fell in Carare Jungle on January 22 killing all 17 aboard. The Associated Press recalls that the greatest previous loss of life aboard a non-military plane .occurred when the Maxim Gomy, which was then the world 's largest land plane, crashed with another aircraft at Moscow in 1935. Tiie 48 aboard the Maxim Gorky were killed and one died in the other craft.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1947, Page 5
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