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Missing Belgian airliner spotted near Newfoundland
A trans Atlantic Belgian airliner with 44 aboard was seen 22 miles southwest of Gander Newfoundland. Survivors were located by a Coast Guard plane as supplies were dropped by parachute. The DC 4 carried 37 Belgian and American passengers including Helen Ruth Henderson of New York, Girl Scouts executive secretary.
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Gander
Newfoundland
Coast Guard
Helen Ruth Henderson
New York
International Division of Girl Scouts
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