AIR DISASTER
GIANT PLANE CRASHES IN FRANCE TWO PERSONS DEAD AND OTHERS INJURED CHERBOURG, July 17. A six-engined seaplane, which was due shortly to make its first transAtlantic flight to Dakar, crashed in Tour-la-Ville today while on a test flight. The nine persons aboard were injured and taken to hospital. Two of them have since died. The plane had a wing-span of 43 yards and could carry 4160 gallons of petrol. Each engine was capable of producing 1100 horse-pewer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 5
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79AIR DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1938, Page 5
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