FUNERAL PLANE FOR AMERICA
Victims Of Shannon Air Crash PARIS, Dec. 30. A special plane is to fly to the United States from Ireland. It will carry the twelve bodies of the people who were killed when an American Constellation aircraft crashed near the Shannon airport on Saturday. Trans-World Airlines have issued a statement saying that the cause of the Shannon crash is still unknown. The plane, after its first approacli, circled and came in again, making a normal approach with no apparent mechanical difliculties. No emergency landing was contemplated at any time. The evidence shows that the tip of the port wing hit the ground first and marked the ground for 50 feet. Then the propellor on the outer °port engine touched the ground and made a 75 foot mark before the port inner and nose wheels began leaving marks. The plane, after *travelling another 75 feet, hit a dirt embankment and the petrol tank exploded.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5290, 31 December 1946, Page 5
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