The Archive · 1936

Seven Perish in Air Crash

Belgrade, July 15.

Seven persons were killed when a passenger plane of the Czechoslovs kian Air Transport Company "Aeroput" crashed shortly after taking off from Laibach for Belgrade.

The catastrophe was due to heavy fog prevailing at the time, which prevented the pilot from correctly estimating the altitude at which he was flying and caused the plane to crash into a hill, Five passengers, among them two German travellers, as well as the pilot and radio operator were instantaneously killed in. the collision—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,

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