WOMAN'S ORDEAL.
LIVED BESIDE DEAD.
Survived 'Plane Crash Causing Loss of Five Lives.
MAROONED SIX DAYS
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 12 noon.)
ROME, April 2S,
During a search of the Apennines for the French air liner, "which was lost on Sunday on its course from Indo-Cliina to Marseilles, and which it was reported had crashed with the loss of eight lives, including one woman, police and Fascist! found the wreck.
The 'plane had crashed in a snowcovered forest, at a height of 5000 feet over Cosenra, Calabria, south-west Italy. Five of the occupauts were dead, including the pilot and the .wireless operator.
Of the three who had survived the disaster one was the woman passengei*. The survivors had lived for six days in the back cabin of the liner, which was intact, subsisting on chocolate biscuits.
The 'plane had crashed into trees during a fog, and the escape of the survivors was due to branches breaking the force of the crash.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 9
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