FOURTEEN DEAD
TRAGEDY IN RIO HARBOUR
AMERICAN FLYING-BOAT DESTROYED. COLLISION WITH SUBMERGED DREDGER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. RIO DE JANEIRO, August 13. Fourteen of the 16 persons aboard wore killed when a twin-engined I’a n-A mor iea 11 Airways’ flying-boat, en route to Buenos Aires from Miami, struck a submerged dredger in Rio de -Janeiro Harbour while landing in semi-dark-ness, broke into three pieces and caught fire. Ten bodies have been recovered and two of the remaining bodies are believed to bo in the sunken wreckage. The survivors' injuries arc believed to be minor. The dead included the pilot. Mr A. G. Person, veteran of a million miles of flying transport planes, his co-pilot. Mr George King, recently transferred from the trans-Pacific service, and a Yale University professor.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1939, Page 6
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127FOURTEEN DEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1939, Page 6
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