30 Killed In Plane Crash
LISBON, August 9. Thirty persons died when a Colombian National Airways (Avianca) Constellation airliner crashed and burst into flames on a mountain in the Azores today. Rescue teams found the wreckage 1000 feet from the top of the mountain. The airliner was carrying 21 passengers and a crew of nine. There were no survivors. The Constellation was flying from Germany to Bogota (Colombia) and had called at Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid, and Lisbon. An official of Pan American Airways, agents for the Avianca Airline, said the airliner landed at the Lages airfield on Terceira Island, in the Portuguese-owned Azores, last night after being unable to land at its scheduled stop of Santa Maria because of after taking, off the aircraft crashed into a mountain and burst into flames. * 1. An unofficial passenger list showed that the passengers were Germans, Spaniards, and South Americans, most of whom had boarded the airliner in Madrid. The crew included an American engineer.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27425, 11 August 1954, Page 11
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