Air crash in Italy
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BARI (Italy), Oct. 31. Police worked under arc lamps through the night to recover the bodies of 27 persons killed in a Fokker domestic airliner which crashed in remote countryside west of Bari.
A police patrol who saw the crash said that tongues of fire began to stream from the plane before it abruptly lost height, near the small town of Poggiorsini, 44 miles from Bari.
TTie Dutch-built Fokker Friendship of the domestic ATI airline then clipped a group of trees, ploughed a 300-yard furrow across a field and smashed into a farm building, bursting into flames. The plane was on a “busstop” journey round southern Italy and was on its way from Naples to Bari when it crashed last night The pilot had asked permission to land at Bari a few minutes earlier. There were two off-duty ATI technicians among the 24 passengers, who also included four women, two of them nuns. All were apparently Italians, about half of them from Naples. The plane had a three-man crew.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33062, 1 November 1972, Page 18
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