NINETEEN KILLED
PLANE STRIKES MOUNTAIN IN ITALY VICTIMS MOSTLY ALBANIAN DIPLOMATS. RETURNING FROM KING ZOG'S WEDDING. (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) ROME, May 1. A message from Formia says a plane returning to Rome from Tirana crashed on a mountain and nineteen persons were killed, mostly members of the Albanian Legation who were returning to Rome from King Zog's wedding. The controllers of the Rome-Tirana service is withholding the passenger list, but it is known that the Albanian Minister to Italy is among the killed. One passenger is believed to be British the name given being Samuel Rortoss.
The plane caught fire, when it crashed. All the bodies were badly burned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1938, Page 6
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