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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2241

(x) South Africa
Later Crashes
1960 (16 Dec.) Mid-Air Collision Over New York
1960 (16 Dec.) partly charred envelope from Albuquerque to Cape Town bearing 25c. and showing "damaged in handling in postal service" cachet in violet; believed to be the sole recorded surviving cover addressed to South Africa. Unlisted in Nierinck

Note: at 10.35 a.m. a TWA Super Constellation inbound for New York La Guardia collided over New York City with a United Airlines DC8 inbound from Chicago. Not surprisingly there were no survivors with 134 lives lost. The mail from the TWA flight was recovered, much of which was too badly damaged to be deliverable

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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Sold for
£60