FATAL PLANE CRASH
INDIAN BAZAAR TRAGEDY
Rec. 10.30 a.m. CALCUTTA, July 31
More than 100 persons were killed and many injured when an aeroplane crashed on an open-air bazaar near Nadaripur, in Bengal. The plane, which was flying low, fouled the telegraph wires and fell into the crowded market-place. One hundred laden river boats were destroyed. The pilot and the five other occupants of the plane were killed.
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FATAL PLANE CRASH, Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1945
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