Airliner Crashes In Pacific AKA Airliner… 1956

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Pacific Ocean.

LV. The plane flying very low over the sea. SV. Side of ship as the cutter Portchartrain puts down a runway of fire extinguisher foam. LV. The plane coming near water and it hits it. LV. The wreckage in the water with survivors on the wings and on a raft. SV. Pan along the smashed...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
32335
Sort Number:
56/087
Time in/Out:
01:13:19:00 / 01:14:11:00
Canister:
56/87
Film ID:
609.10
Issue Date:
29/10/1956

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