CRASHED IN FLAMES
FRENCH PASSENGER PLANE NINE LIVES LOST ' Press Association—By Telegraphy-Copyright PAKIS, January 15*- ■ (Ileceived January 16,- at i 1.45 p.m.) The monoplane Emerald} 'from Saigon, crashed in flames at. Corbingy. All the nine people aboard, including M. Pierre Pasquier, the Governor-Gleneral of Inclo-Chinii, were incinerated. Six bodies have been recovered. ' ... .The Emerald attempted a record flight to Paris with Saigon mails; It was forced down at Gwadar (Baluchistan) owing to defective oil feed, damaging the under-carriage. The flight was resumed on receiving sparfl parts, which 'were rushed from Karachi. The wrecked plane was a three-engined monoplane with a capacity for twelve passengers. It began its first flight to Saigon on December. 21. The Emerald crashed on snowclad hills. It left" Athens in the morning and alighted at Marseilles at 2.30 in the afternoon. M. Pasquier was , very interested in aviation. He had previously flown from Saigon to France.
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Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 9
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150CRASHED IN FLAMES Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 9
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