CRASH INTO SEA?
14 On Plane Feared Lost (N.Z. Press Assn,—Copgright) LISBON, January 23 A Portuguese Air Force DC 4 with 14 persons on board was believed to have crashed into the sea last night near the Canary Islands, the Air Force announced today. An Air Force headquarters spokesman in Lisbon said “Probably there are no survivors." the Associated Press reported. The plane was carrying a military crew of eight and six passengers, all civilians. The spokesman said the plane left Bissau, in Portuguese Guinea, for Lisbon yesterday evening and was scheduled to make an intermediate stop at Gando. Las Palmas, in the Canaries. It was the second major air accident Involving a Portuguese plane i that area, said the Associated Press. On November 23. last year, a plane with 32 persons on board crashed at San Tome, killing 18.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 13
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140CRASH INTO SEA? Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 13
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