AIRLINER CRASHES
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CAPE TOWN, March 14. A South African Airways Viscount airliner crashed into the sea near East London, Cape Province, yesterday. All 25 people aboard are believed to have been killed. So far 15 bodies have been washed up on the rocky coast Ships and aircraft are searching for the remaining 10 people aboard. Little hope is held out for their survival The plane crashed about 15 miles out to sea in rain and low cloud shortly before it was due to land at East London on a flight along the coast from Port Elizabeth, officials of the airline said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 12
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