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THREE S'HAI PLANES CRASH Few Expected To Survive Triple Air Disaster
Christmas Night Tragedy
Shanghai, Dec. 26.
Christmas night in Shanghai was marred by the greatest air disaster in Chinese aviation his- tory when three air liners-two belonging to the Sino-American concern China National Aviation Corporation and the other to the State-owned Central Air Transport.Corpora- tion-crashed, with a death roll of at least 62 passengers and air crews, in attempting to land in the fog enshrouded airfield. Among the 12 injured; a few are now expected to survive. All three planes were coming from Chungking and carrying a reported total of 68 passengers
rs and nine crewmen.
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Inverness, Dec. 25.
An earth tremor was felt over a wide area in the Lochaber district of invey 'ness-shire this evening.
.It started with a faint
noise, rapidly 17 to a loud so like a heavy explosion and continu ed for about seven seconds.
People said that they felt four distinct jolts, which shook houses -- and. rattled crockery on shelves-Reuter,
so he went to sleep.-United Press.
70 Dead
Shanghai, Dec. 27... It was officially announced that the triple plane crash toll now was 70 killed and 16 injured.
Some reports place the dead house, killing the mother and-Capt. J. M. Greenwood, of Aus-
RIO DE JANEIRO
AIR CRASH
Rio de Janeirs, Dec. 24. Crash squads tonight were still hacking at the wreeltagé -- buried in tangled undergrowth of the London Buenos Aires airliner which crashed in the thickly wooded mountain range, 14 miles from here, causing the death of 20 of its passengers and crew;
Among the victims was Dr. Arturo Razio, Argentine Minister at Lisbon, "and. Mrs. Dorothy Norma Pears, 38- year-old British pioneer woman. air ace. ⠀
The only foreigners involved were two American CNAC pilots
at 70.
injuring three of her children. tin, Tex., killed, and Capt. Rolf The two CNAC planes, a C-47 The second mishap took place Brandt, of Preus, Minneapolis, and
a C-48, numbered 140 and two hours inter when the plane who is suffering serious face and 115 respectively, crashed outside 140 crashed at Lunghwa airfield, other injuries.
Henrique Lecrois, one of the Lunghwa airfield in the southern after futile efforts to blind-land The breakdown figures, accord- only two passengers brought suburb of Shanghai after their by instruments at Klangwan.
official ing' to
announcements, from the wreckage alive, died gasoline supply had run out. | Circled For Three Hours were: 58 killed in the crash of a in hospital today and the con-
The CATC plane, number 48, The second CNAC airliner
CNAC C47 and a C-46 plus 13 dition of the only survivor, with still one hour's fuel re-reached Shanghal
injured; 11 killed in the CATC Claudio Mendoza of Lima, Peru, at 5.30 p.m. serve, plunged into a farmhouse local time and circled for about 47 crash; one killed and three was stated here tonight to be north of Kiangwan airfield, in a three and northeast suburb, after shooting Kiangwan, seeking to land by cutting crashing of the
a half hours
injured in the farmhouse which "extremely critical." WDS crushed by the grass- The crash, which took place under D 100-weather celling instruments.
CATC in a heavy mist,, is the worst in a rooftop approach.
For reasons unknown it left
transport,
foreign plane disaster ever re- The pilots of both CNAC planes Kinngwan field for Lunghwa, at-latives on the ill-fated planes and
Scores of people who have recorded in Brazil... were Americani, Captain J.M. tempting to land there. Falling Greenwood, of 140 and Captain to came out of a circle it crashed who were expecting their family Preus of 115, while a Chinese, about a mile southwest of
members from Chungking yester- Tommy Wing, was "in charge of field.
day thronged the funeral parlours the CATC machine,
where bodies were laid out for identification. One father fainted when he found that his wife, two daughters and two servants-his whole family were dead.
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It was revealed today that the last signal from the plane was heard yesterday morning when it was upproaching Gal- All Shanghai commercial
leas airport, normal port for The fate of the Americans is departures were cancelled
international, traffic. Owing to still uncertain although
bad conditions, it is believed un-porarily as ̧ confirmed
reports Fay that crashes and weather conditions,
that the captain, British-born Captain Greenwood was killed CNAC, in a stateinent today.
Derek Norman: Janes, tried to and -Preus seriously injured. explained
A Chinese report said that make for the military airport Tommy Wing perished with all planes
ill-fated. Greenwood's wife was leaving the eleven occupants of his plane, When they toult
Chungking United States by plane for Shong-ing so he had to cross the mist- of Campos de Affonsos. In do- including nine passengers. Wuebang, opposite Hankow, the band. It was not known if she
hai on Thursday to join her hus-shrouded Tijuca range Dense Fog
weather in Shanghai and Nanking had left.
Pearse Killed The two CNAC planes carried was suitable for landing, but a total of 60 passengers, with six they crewmen.
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However, they could not turn disobeyed orders to ground the on Shanghai last night, carrying back because of the absence of hai to spend Christmas here.
planes and had rushed to Shang- more than a hundred, passengers (night landing caver to spend Christmas here, Wuchong-Reuter. :
Dense fog, however, enveloped the entire area as far back as Nanking. Eight planes managed to land spiely.
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The spokesmen said the planes left Chungking with an inter- mediary atop at Wuchang when Shanghai, Dec. 27. the weather, was unfavourable. When a CNAC' salvage crew Foe developed unexpectedly later The first plane to crash was 46 cn. Thursday noon, they in landing..
lifted the wreckage of the Cin the aftemoon, causing dificulty the CATC C-47% Wanking, because of bad weather of fast asleep-the only unin-way CN$1,000,000 to asch, dead If dipped found four-year-old. Wong Di They said the companies, will conditions, and tried to land at jured survivor of the worst gir passenger's family plus a compen- Klangwan. In zero visibility it mishaps. The boy said he cation to the survivors according overshot the landing strip and cried and cried asking crashed into a farmhouse.
forto the varying degree of injury....... mama but there was no answer, United Press. W
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He had requested that the of 'wide_interest for our whole true facts as presented in it|Empire.". should be made public.
General Percival guye these facts in a letter to the Daily Telegraph. He added that the despatch was factual and com- prehensive and was a tale nei ther of "complacency, mirman- agement, and self-deception nor of utter tragedy in execution.
If it was so, he said, it would be a great injustice both to the leaders and to many brave men who fought in the campaign.
"It is rather an objective story of the war in Malaya from every angle, with a full exposition of the various pro- blems which arose and the reasons for the decisions taken," le declared.
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killed in the crash, including Mrs. Pearse and, her husband, Richard Pearse, formerly at Squadron-leader in the RAF. Mrs. Pearse was the first woman to receive a technical appointment in civil aviation when she joined the Air Regis, tration Board in London in 1938. She was also the founder of a company - giving "joy makers, and has held office as rides" to thousands of holiday engineer in charge of a fleet of aircraft for British Empire air displays.
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The casualty list issued by the Argentine Embassy in Rio de Janeiro gave the names of the two passengers who got on the plane at Lisbon as P.” Ar- rozarena and Maria Arrozare- na, making up the list of 21 passengers and crew.
The name of a passenger previously shown as Baradort was given in this Ust as Eit- gardo Bosdora and two pas sengers named as Quaglia were described as . Giovaní fully
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General Percival was reply ing to a letter by a former prisoner, Talbot Hayes, who had asked if an objective ac Reuter. count of the episode was to appear or if it was to be sup pressed.
Talbot added: "If as one may suspect, it is a tale of com-
CHRISTMAS ROAD TOLL
New-York, Dec. 28. placency, mismanagement, self- A survey today showed that the deception and utter tragedy, in Christmas holiday was marred by. execution, let it be known so the violent, death of at least 301. that errors can be avoided in persons across the United States. the futureReuter.
Accidents, on crowded streets and; highways accounted for 220
Hamburg, Dec. 26. deaths, Nine German prisoners. 01: Highway traffic was reported war were killed and one the heaviest for the Christmas seriously injured when their holiday on record. antar jam forry containing, mines to be The survey showed at least 81 exploded ran into a minefield people killed in miscellaneous ac- near Kirchkellen airfield, West-cidents, fires and shootings, phalla-Reuter....
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