Plane Blows Up In Air
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CAIRO, May 12. A United Arab Airlines plane flying through a dust storm exploded over a tiny mud village today, killing all 32 persons aboard, United Press International reported. The twin-engine plane, en route from Cairo to Alexandria, carried 28 passengers and four crewmen. The airliner exploded in the air and rained burning debris and pieces of shattered bodies on a surrounding citrus grove minutes after it took off from Cairo. “There were no bodies,” a witness said. “Only small pieces of them, and bits of clothing and baggage,” he added. An incomplete passenger list indicated many of the lassengers were Lebanese and Iraqis, but a number of non-Arabs also were aboard. Two United Nations passports were found in the debris. Witnesses said the plane exploded in the sky before plunging into a lemon orchard near the village, which is about 20 miles north of Cairo. Bhe crash was the third air disaster this month. A Brazilian Convair crashed near Sao Paulo on May 3, killing 49 people; and the next day all 55 people aboard, a DC6 of Air Afrique were killed when it crashed on Mount Cameroon.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30130, 14 May 1963, Page 9
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