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29 FEARED KILLED INPLANE CRASHWESTOVER FIELD iMu-•arhUBelbO. December 10. —A big United Stairs Army CM transport plane with 23 on board ruihnl in a anowv M'ihirn.ess aoout midnight, right mile* north of Goose Bay airfield. In Labrador, with no known survivors.Stormy weather hampered observation from the nlr by n Ninth Air Force reconnaissance plane from t)ii» New England base, which reported sighting scattered, burning wreckage.Major General William Turner,! commander ol the Atlantic Division of the Air Transport Command, has flown to Goose Bay to direct rescue effort*.Preparations are being made lo fly a helicopter lo the crash scene In u heavily forested urea. Oround rescue crews set out at daybreak, but faced hard going over rugged countryside near a trading post of the North-west RiverFirst reports Indicated there were signs of survivals, but thin was latcd amended to no known survivors
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Mackay Daily Mercury

Mackay, Queensland, AU

Fri, Dec 12, 1947

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