LOST AIR LINER
WRECK & BODIES FOUND IN ALPS MOUNTAIN PEAK STRUCK IN FOG. SUPPOSED CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISASTER. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. NICE, March 5. A skier near Rubicon, in the lower Alps, found 11 bodies amid the debris of a German aeroplane which was lost after a flight across the Mediterranean recently. . All the bodies are of male civilians, except one woman. The plane is believed to have crashed six or seven days ago after striking a mountain peak at a height of 5100 feet in dense fog over a military area where civil flying is forbidden. The pilot may have lost his bearings. GERMAN THEORY. MAY BE FRANKFURT-MILAN MACHINE. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, March 5. The German Lufthansa Company suggest that the crashed plane may be Ihe Frankfurt-Milan air liner which has been missing since January 10 with 10 passengers and a crew of two. A salvage party has left for the scene. Among the half-burned papers found in the wreckage there were a number of typed sheets in which the word Barcelona frequently appears.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 5
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176LOST AIR LINER Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 5
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