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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2165

(x) South Africa
1933 (14 Dec.) Eshowe Air Disaster
1933 (14 Dec.) Post Office Letter Bill form issued by the Durban Post Office to accompany the airmail bag, endorsed "Late arrival due to plane crashing at Eshowe with loss of life" and with Durban (14.12) and Johannesburg (16.12) datestamps; accompanied by two photographs of the stricken plane. Nierinck 331214

Note: A Union Airways Junkers aircraft flying from Durban to the Rand crashed in a cane field on the hillside seven miles from Eshowe, and was completely wrecked. The pilot, Capt. Hiscock, the wireless operator and three of the four passengers were killed. Mails were recovered intact and sent to Johannesburg by rail with no mail recorded to date

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