AIR TRAGEDY
DESTRUCTION OF BIG BOEING LINER CREW OF ELEVEN KILLED. MACHINE DIVES AND FALLS APART. (Independent Cable Service.) ALDER (Washington), March 19. A huge 500,000-dollar Boeing airliner crashed in a test flight, killing all the 11 members of the crew. Horrified spectators saw the plane dive with a terrific roar and then fall apart. The liner was designed to carry 33 passengers at 300 miles an hour at 20,000 feet altitude in a sealed cabin to equalise air pressure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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80AIR TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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