MEXICO CITY, Sept. 27. After a 12-hour struggle up the slopes of the three niile high Popoeatepetl volcano, search parties reached the wreckage of the Mexiean Aviation Companv's DC3 airliner which crashed 'yesterday, to fmd all 24 persons aboard were dead. They found some of tbe bodies burned and others mangled. The plane.struck the motmtain a few hundred feet below its cap of permanent snow. The evidence indicated that thipilot had seen the volcano ahead as he jflew through heavv clouds and had swerved but the right wing touched the mountain side. The plane would have cleared the volcano if it had been 300 feet higher.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 September 1949, Page 5
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