DE VALERA’S PLANE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
(Rec. 10.30) LONDON. April 23 An hour after leaving, the Shannon airport in the West of Eire, late on Thursday night, a Pan-American “Constellation” plane in which Mr Eamonn De Valera (Leader of the Fianna Fail Party -in Dail Eirean) left for Melbourne to attend the Centenary ceelbrati/n of the Melbourne Archdiocese was struck by lightning.
Nobody was injured. The Constellation returned to the airport.
There the passengers taken on a relief plane.
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Grey River Argus, 24 April 1948, Page 4
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