DISASTER OVERTAKES A UNIT OF ITALY’S AIR ARMADA.—Tire Italian air armada of twenty-six flying boats, which successfully flew from Orbetello. to Chicago, via Amsterdam, Great Britain, and Greenland, met with disaster when landing at the Dutch on July 1, the first step of its formation flight across the world. When alighting one of the seaplanes overturned, a member of the crew being killed and thr ee injured. The photograph shows the wrecked ma chine with a diver at work. The remain mg twenty-five seaplanes are now returning to Italy via the Azores.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1933, Page 5
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92DISASTER OVERTAKES A UNIT OF ITALY’S AIR ARMADA.—Tire Italian air armada of twenty-six flying boats, which successfully flew from Orbetello. to Chicago, via Amsterdam, Great Britain, and Greenland, met with disaster when landing at the Dutch on July 1, the first step of its formation flight across the world. When alighting one of the seaplanes overturned, a member of the crew being killed and three injured. The photograph shows the wrecked ma chine with a diver at work. The remain mg twenty-five seaplanes are now returning to Italy via the Azores. Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1933, Page 5
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