NINE KILLED
AIR FORCE LINER CRASHES IN MOROCCO SUPPOSED FREEZING OF WING CONTROLS. EVIDENCE OF RADIO CALLS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS. May 3. A three-engined Air France liner on the Casablanca-Dakar service crashed in the mountains between Mogador and Marrakesh, killing all the occupants, comprising six passengers and the crew of tnree. Shortly before the crash the liner sent three urgent radio messages repeating the word “ice.” It is believed that the crash was caused by the wing controls becoming frozen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 7
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81NINE KILLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 7
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