SPANISH AIRLINER CRASHES
Passengers And Crew
All Killed
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MADRID, October 28.
All 17 passengers and the crew of four were killed when a Spanish Iberia airliner crashed about 12 miles from Madrid tonight.
A spokesman of Iberia Airlines said that the aircraft, a DC3, tried to make a forced landing, but an engine caught fire and the machine plunged to earth between Arganda and Getafe.
The aircraft was on its way from Tangier to Madrid. The passengers were 11 Spaniards, an American couple, two Frenchmen, a Frenchwoman, and a Moroccan.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28421, 30 October 1957, Page 18
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