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24 DIE m B.S.
PLANE CRASH
NEW YORK.. Feb. 13 (A.A.P.).
Twenty-four persons are be
lieved to have been killed when
an overdue transcontinental Ame
rican Airlines plane crashed Into'
me Mississippi below Memphis at
midnight. 'The. plane caught fire
and sank immediately.
Tne death roll is only one short
ot the worst civilian flying disas
ter—that- at Lovettsvllle. in Vir
ginia, In August, 1940.
Airline officials are unable to
suggest tne cause of the tragedy
The victims Included 12 service
men. nine civilian passengers and
the crew of three.
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