21 DEAD IN MEXICAN PLANE ON TO? OF VOLCANO
(Re? 11.20) MEXICO CITY Sept 27’ Aiter a 12-hour struggle up the slopes of the three-miles-high Mount Popocatepetl, a Mexican volcano, search parties reached the wreckage of the Mexican Aviation Company’s DC3 (Dakota) airliner which crashed yesterday. They found that all 24 persons aboard were dead. They found some of the bodies burned and other were mangled. The plane struck the volcano a few hundred feet below its cap of permanent snow. The evidence indicated that the pilot had seen the volcano ahead as he flew through heavy clouds, and had swerved, but the right wing had touched the mountain side. The plane would have cleared the volcano if it had been three hundred feet higher.
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Grey River Argus, 29 September 1949, Page 4
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