WRECKAGE FOUND OF AIRCRAFT
Belgian Plane Hits Mountain Side
(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) ROME, February 21. A patrol of Italian police and volunteers on skis last night reached the wreckage of the Belgian Sabena Super DC-6 airliner 4500 feet up on Mount Terminillo in Central Italy. The airliner has been missing for eight days with 29 persons aboard. Police mounted guard over the wreckage pending an investigation which will open at dawn today. The airliner vanished on a flight from Brussels to the Belgian Congo when it was only 15 minutes’ flying time from the Rome airport.
The wreckage was spotted earlier yesterday by Italian search planes and helicopters.
The police patrol later reported finding five bodies among the wreckage, including that of Marcella Mariani, an Italian beauty queen and film starlet, aged 24, who had been attending a charity ball in Brussels. Identification of the other bodies was proving difficult because of the injuries.
The aircraft hit the mountain side with such force that its forward part was smashed to pieces.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27591, 23 February 1955, Page 13
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