AIRLINER MISSING OVER ALPS
48 PERSONS ABOARD
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 3. United State, and Italian military aeroplanes will begin a search at daybreak to-morrow for a Bombay-Lon-don Constellation airliner missing over the French alps with 48 persons on board.
The aeroplane was bringing 40 Indian seamen to man the new 10,000ton cargo ship Queen City. It had a British captain and seven Indians as crew.
The aeroplane is more than six hours overdue. It left Cairo this morning, and was last heard of flying over Grenoble, in the French Rhone valley, only 65 miles south of Geneva. French troops and gendarmes took Europe's highest road to-night, to search for the aeroplane near Mont Blanc, as a result of a report of two loud explosions near the FrenchItalian border this afternoon.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26262, 6 November 1950, Page 7
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