The Archive · 1937

PORTUGUESE AIR-LINE HAS 'TRAGIC START

Lisbon, Aug. 8.

Five directors of a new Portuguese airline were killed to-day while making a propaganda flight.

The aeroplane caught fire after felling two miles off the coast between Lisbon and Figuelrafoz. The machine was piloted by Sr. Abel Pessoa, Pres-Ident of the new company.—Reuter. of 191 killed and Jured when seventeen miles from Patna, during the early hours of July 17. The are shown in the top pictures above. wrecked carriages piled on top of each other.

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