FIRST CRASH IN 2745 CROSSINGS
WELLINGTON, Aug. 10. A party of Nat-ional Airways engineers and a senior pilot, accomuanied by the inspector of acc; ients for the Air Denartment, Mr R. C. Kean, left for B^nheim thir mornins: to proceed to the scene of fhe crashed Dakota and make investigqtions. Since the inception of the rai1 ways freight sefvice' in Februar)? •P47, their aircraft have made 2741 woss'ngs of Cook Strait and ye^ erday's crash was the first mishai vn the service. A Railways Department offlcie" fi-ated- today that all the freigh vas insured either by the cons'ignors, or covered by the Tdepart--ment's policy. Until the wfeckagf had been examined carefully iwould not be known what freight if anv. eoulri be sa.lvae'ed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 August 1948, Page 5
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