Record-Breaking Airliner Forced Down Off Shore of Cavite, P.L; All Six Occupants Saved by Fishermen; Craft May Be Salvaged Manila, Dec. 6.
INGING homeward on a triumphant trip to Berlin after breaking the record for a flight from Berlin to Tokyo, the giant four-engined German Condor monoplane met with disaster shortly after 4 p.m. today and crashed òff Rosario in Cavite Province, but all six occupants of the transport airliner were saved from drowning by Filipino fishermen.
Who monoplane crashed into the waters close to Cavite owing to engine trouble.
All five members of the crew and Dr. Heinrich Junge, chief engineer of the Focke-Wulf Company, builders of the Condor monoplane, were picked up by Filipino fishermen shortly after the giant airliner crashed. Although the motors faded, expert handling of the plane by Captain Alfred Henke, chief pilot, and Captain Baron Rudolph von Moreau, ce-pilot, resulted in the plane landing right side up. - A launch sent from Cavite arrived at the scene and picked up the six Germans, bringing them to Manila where they were met by Manila and German Consular officials and numerous newspapermen and photographers.
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