AIR TRAGEDY IN NORWAY
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THIRTY-FIVE KILLED WHEN FLYING BOAT CRASHES INTO MOUNTAIN
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Received Friday, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, August 28. Thirty-five people were killed today When a Norwegian Airlines' fiying boat crashed* into a mountain in north-west Norway. The plane crashed half-way up J The Norwegian Airlines' flyingMount Kiubben, south Of Harstad, pboat was flying between Stavangei which is on the island of Hindo, off i and Tromso. -N^£}yay s . nortla- v/est coast. | British United Press' Oslc Those killed were the 27 pas- Correspondent says the fiying-boa sengers and ciew of eight- Rescue eaug-ftt flre immediately after tlu workers f°und 32 of the bodies m erasft. The plane ran into a denst anThr™ theebTgIeCstagair disaster f0g and vfbUity WaS P°°r'since July 15, when 50 people were Parties from nearby villages and killed when a DC4 Skymaster 1 Plane carrying another rescut crashed in the Blue Ridge Moun- eam are on their way to the scene tains, Virginia. the crash.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1947, Page 5
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162AIR TRAGEDY IN NORWAY Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1947, Page 5
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