PLANE BADLY DAMAGED
FIRE AT HONG KONG
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LINER
HONG KONG, June 3.
The Imperial Airways liner Dorado caught fire this morning while preparing to take off for Bangkok. The plane was considerably damaged.
The coolness of the Imperial Airways manager, Mr. E. Watts, saved one American passenger and two Chinese employees from death by shepherding them through the emergency exit to the tip of one' of the wings, where they all jumped to the ground. One Chinese received a broken leg.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 130, 4 June 1938, Page 9
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83PLANE BADLY DAMAGED Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 130, 4 June 1938, Page 9
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