AIRSHIP DISASTER
SOVIET’S LARGEST CRAFT Thirteen of Crew Killed I Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received February 8, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, February 8. The British United Press correspondent at Moscow says: It is officially stated that thirteen members of the crew of eighteen were killed when the Soviet’s largest airship, the “U.S.S.R.V6” crashed. She crashed when she was engaged on a training flight, from Moscow to Murmansk and back. This flight was one preparatory to making an attempt at a rescue of the Polar scientists on the ice floe. Three others of the crew were seriously injured. The remaining two escaped unhurt. The airship is reported to have crashed in a fog on a mountain near Kandalaksha, which is 177 miles from Murmansk. The Soviet Government has ordered a State funeral for the victims. Their families are to be awarded 1 ten thousand roubles each, plus life pensions.
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Grey River Argus, 9 February 1938, Page 4
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