AIRLINER CRASHES.
EIGHT KILLED; FOUR INJURED
OKLAHOMA, March 20. Through the failure of its left motor a moment after the take-off, a Douglas airliner crashed at the municipal airport here to-day and burst into flames. ■, , Eight persons were killed and tour seriously injured. The impact threw the survivors through the windows. MAIDEN FLIGHT. GIANT FLYING BOAT. BALTIMORE, March 26. Pan-American Airways’s 74-passen-ger Yankee Clipper, the world s largest flying-boat, left for the Azores at 2.34 p.m. to-day on her maiden Atlantic flight. She will call at Lisbon, Marseilles, Southampton and 1 oynes.
AT THE AZORES.
Received March 28. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, March 27. The Yankee Clipper landed at Horta at 1.07 i>.m. (G.M.T.).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 100, 28 March 1939, Page 7
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