GRANDSTAND COLLAPSED
FOOTBALL CROWDS WAVE TO AIRPLANES OVERHEAD INJURED TOTAL IZO Reed. 9.5 a.m. MILAN, Sunday. One hundred and twenty spectators were injured, 20 of them seriously, when a grandstand collapsed during a football match. There were 20,000 persons present. The accident occurred when scores of airplanes, returning from mass aerial manoeuvres, passed overhead. The spectators jumped up, and waved their hands in greetings to the planes, with the result that the stand collapsed owing to the undue pressure.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1000, 17 June 1930, Page 9
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79GRANDSTAND COLLAPSED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1000, 17 June 1930, Page 9
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