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Casablanca Airliner Disaster Strikes Belgian Flight
A Sabena DC6B bound for Leopoldville from Lisbon exploded after missing the Casablanca runway. Forty-one of the dead were Belgians, with Britons, Portuguese, Dutch, German, and Swiss among the victims. Eleven survived, including Eduard Pilaet who freed a door and helped others escape.
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Colleen Bailey
Robert Mitchell
Ruth Levinson
Antarctica
Bailey
Maureeniy Mary Lee Jackson
Jand Mary Kay
Rosemary Baumsgardner
Bernard Baum
Igardner
Elise Boylan
Saint John’s
Boylan
Sharon Brown
Casablanca
Morocco
Iee Brown
Anne Duggan
William Jackson
Theo William Duggan
Dore Levinson
Jane
Clare
Lynne Geasey
St. John’s
Spencer Geasey
Caresi Literary Institute
Deborah
Rebecca Ann Hahn
Atecpart
Herbert Hahn Jr
Mary Ellen Jacobs
William Jacobs
Bardren
Kara
Mary Jeanne Levinson
Levinson
Gail McClellan
Plunging
Hatchway
James McClellan
Marie McEwen
Sabena Airlines
John LeElan
Natalie Ae
Sherry
James MccSherry
Francis Simms
Hugh Simms
Gers
Decorah DeLauter
Charles
Belgian Congo
Brussels
Lisbon
Leopoldville
Sabena
Eduard Pilaet
Pilaet