Record-Breaking Airliner Forced Down Off Shore Of Cavite, P.I.; All Six Occupants Saved Manila, Dec. 6.
INGING homeward on a triumphant trip to Berlin after breaking the record for a flight from Berlin to Tokyo, the giant ed German Condor monoplane met with disaster shortly after 4 p.m, today and crashed off Rosario in Cavite Province, but all six occupants of the transport airliner were saved from drowning by Filipino fishermen, The 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.
The first log of the return trip the German "Goodwill" plane ended spectacularly when the gleaming sliver monoplane encountered engine trouble almost within sight of Manila and crashed into the China Sea. In the midst of a group of Filipino fish-Ing boats off the village of Rosario, thirty miles west of Manila, Startled by the unexpected landing, the Filipino fishermen rushed to the rescue of the Germans when they saw that the Condor transport air liner had started to sink.
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