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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.), — The 1000-miles hop between Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland has cost 125 lives in the last two years. Victims have been mainly Puerto Ricans lured to America by stories of the wealth to be won in New York. The dead include 64 people who died when 8 chartered American C4 transport crashed into the sea near Puerto Rico yesterday. The plane carried 75 persons, including five American crew men, and took off from San Juan airport (Puerto Rico) in heavy rain for Miami (Florida). Two minutes after the take off the airliner radioed for permission to land. The control towers heard nothing more from it, but sur vivors said an engine went dead and the plane plunged into the Caribbean ten minutes after it left San Juan 0.8. Coastguard cutters and small ships rescued the 21 sur vivors from the water and from reefs and rocks near the scene of the crash. Coastguard planes located the C46 40 feet under water near a small island about 400 yards west of Puerto Rico. Survivors said the passen gera seemed nervous from the start because of the large num ber on board the plane Puerto Rican air officials said last night the plane—op erated by Strato Preights Inc. —was not overcrowded, that the tyne had a general weight imit of 45,0001b and that the official manifest showed a weight of 44,500Ib. Yesterday's accident was the fourth on the Puerto Rican run since the post-war migra tion boom began. Other crashes: Twenty-one killed on July 18, 1947, at Melbourne, Florida. Biphieey killed on January 1, 1948, at Savannah, Georgia. ‘Thirty-two killed on Decem ber 28, 1948, when ‘a plane dis appeared between in Juan and Miami.
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Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Thu, Jun 09, 1949
Page 22
Full Page
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Timothy R.
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