AIR DISASTER
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BIG AMPHIBIAN 'PLANE STRiKES A MOUNTAIN IN CHINA SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED
— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
Shanghai, Nov. 24. The worst disaster in civil aviation in China, though not attended with fatalities, oecurred when the huge Sikorski amphibian, carrying two pilots and seven passengers, crashed on the heights of Chusan Island, Hanchow Bay, in a dense fog, on its inaugural passenger flight. The nrachine, after striking the rock-bound coast, somersaulted thrice ending in a mass of twisted wreckage, from which the occupants, badly injured, were extricated. The Countess of Carlisle and the British Minister (Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson) had both ankles broken. Mr. Reynolds, American Consul at Foochow, was badly injured.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 November 1933, Page 5
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113AIR DISASTER Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 November 1933, Page 5
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