CREW KILLED
SOVIET HEIGHT RECORD. * ENVELOPE TORN FROM GONDOLA ALL INSTRUMENTS DESTROYED." (United Preßß Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) , MOSCOW, January 31. An official, message states that the three members of the balloon Sinus, which established an altitude record, were killed when the gondola became detached from the balloon. • -:■! The bodies were found in the wreckage of the gondola at Potijsky, eight miles south of Kadoshfrino'. Eye-witnesses declare that the balloon was falling when there were two explosions, followed by a crash. - The envelope was torn off and all the.,; instruments were destroyed. The thiee bodies will be buried in the Kremlin Wall, facing Red Square.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 95, 1 February 1934, Page 5
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