TWICE CRASHED
SOVIET PLANE WRECKED POUR OP OREW PERISH United press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyripnt LONDON, May 20 The Moscow correspondent of the News Chronicle says that while flying home from Rudolf Island after a vain search for Pilot Levanevski, who disappeared with his crew of six while flying to America from Moscow, an aeroplane caught on Are and crashed. The pilot was able to take off again but the plane again crashed on a river at Archangel, killing four of the crew of 16, including the oldest Arctic pilot, Babushkin, who was associated with the Papanln expedition. This makes a deathroll of 24 in attempts to conquer the North Pole.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 9
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111TWICE CRASHED Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 9
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