PLANES COLLIDE IN MID-AIR
14 PERSONS KILLED (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, February 19. Fourteen persons were killed when a British European Airways Dakota and a Royal Air Force Anson collided in mid-air near Coventry. There were no survivors. The Dakota was on a scheduled flight from London to Glasgow with a crew of four and six passengers. The Air Force aeroplane was on a training flight with four occupants. The main wreckage fell at the back of a hospital. Two bodies were found with parachutes which were onlv partly opened. It is officially announced that three Americans, including a Chicago man and his wife, were among the victims. This is the most serious civil air crash since October 22, 1948, when a Dutch airliner crashed near Prestwick. in Ayrshire, with the loss of 40 lives.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25734, 21 February 1949, Page 7
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