Moscow, May 18, The "Maxim Gorky," the world's gest aeroplane, exploded in mid air, after being struck by a stunting pursuit plane, and crashed to. the round with passengers and a rew The dead comprised the crew of leven and 36 passengers on board the giant machine, and Blaguin, the pilot of the colliding plane. "The unfortunate passengers at the time were having a Joy-ride on the occasion of Soviet. "Free Day."
Despite stringent orders, the communique slated, Blaguin started stunting close to the Maxim Gorky at a height of 2,250 feet, and he was just finishing the loop when his plane Struck the wing of the Maxim Gorky, which, badly damaged, crashed. The dead passengers, the official "story added, comprised engineers, techni-clans and members of the Working Men's Institute and several members of their families—Reuter.
Moscow, May 20.
The Government of the Soviet Union to-day decreed that three] more giant planes are to be built of the same size and type as the Ulfated aerial giant, the Maxim Gorky, which was the world's largest "plane, The new aeroplanes will be named the Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
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