WRECKAGE FOUND
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TWO OF CREW DEAD ^UT { THREE' SURVIVORS LIVING CRASHED IN A FOREST
— By Telegj-aph — Copyright).
Rec. April 29. Rome, April 28. Police and Fascists, when searching the Appenines, found the French aeroplane in a snow_covered f orest. 5000 feet aibove Cosenza. Five of the occupants, including the pilot and wireless operator, were dead. Three were alive, including a woman passenger. The survivors lived for six days in the back; portion of the cabin,- which was intact. They subsisted on ehocolate biscuits. The 'plane crashed amongst the trees during a fog. The survivors' escape was due to branches breaking the force of the crash. A message received earlier in the week stated it was feared that eight lives had been lost in a French commercial seaplane bound from IndoChina to Marseilles, which had been missing since Sunday morning. When the machine was nearing Naples she wirelessed, saying: "Encountering a storm over the Appenines." It was later ascertained that the liner had crashed into a mountain.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 519, 1 May 1933, Page 5
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