TWELVE KILLED IN AIR CRASH
ELEVEN OTHERS INJURED
Atlantic Plane Down In Eire
Wreckage Bursts Into Flames
London, Dec. 2S
Nine passengers and three members of the crew were killed and five passengers and six members of the crew were injured when a TransWorld Airline Constellation, Star of Cairo, flying from Paris to New York, crashed on a small island in the River Fergus, near Shannon airport, Eire. Most of the survivors were admitted to hospital in a critical condition.
The plane carried 14 passengers, four of whom were Americans, nine French and one a Pole. There w*as a
crew of nine
Night workers at the airport said that when the air-liner crashed the explosion shook the foundations of the airport building and flames rose to a height of several hundred feet.
The first survivor -to reach Shannon airport was an air-hostess, Miss Ferguson. She said trouble developed in the plane as it approached Shannon. She told the passengers to fasten their safety-belts and prepare for an ordinary emergency landing. Then the plane suddenly appeared to get out of control, lose height and crash.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14253, 30 December 1946, Page 3
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