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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2239

(x) South Africa
Later Crashes
1954 (14 Jan.) Philippine Airlines DC6 Crash
1954 (early Jan.) crumpled Samples package (265x200mm.) from Kobe, Japan to Cape Town showing "Damaged in Air-Crash" cachet in violet and complete with an OHMS ambulance envelope with Dept. of Posts and Telegraphs Official Free oval handstamp. Nierinck 540114 with this cachet not recorded by him

Note: Philippine Airlines flight PR501, under the command of Capt. F. Jones crashed near Rome whilst en route from Manila to London. Two engines caught fire necessitating an attempted forced landing in a field short of Ciampino Airport. The aircraft exploded with the loss of 18 lives

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