SAME FATE AS CLIPPER
ITALIAN PLANE CRASH
PILOT’S AMAZING ESCAPE
PARIS, Feb. 3.
Mario Stoppani, the Italian, who crashed in the Atlantic to-day when 50 miles from the coast, was on the homeward trip to Cadiz. The plane was destroyed by fire. A German machine rescued Stoppani, in an injured condition —he was clinging to some floating wreckage—but his four companions were killed.
The disaster was similar to that which befel the Samoan Clipper. It was due to the petrol, which was dumped, igniting.
The Italians turned back because of engine trouble when hundreds of miles out on the flight to Cadiz. Evidently they realised that they would be unable to complete the return journey and attempted to land on the sea.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19550, 4 February 1938, Page 5
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