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AVIATION - ACCIDENT MAIL - AIR FRANCE FLIGHT - Mail from Fra…
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123
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AVIATION - ACCIDENT MAIL - AIR FRANCE FLIGHT - Mail from Fra…
See original version (French)
Estimate
€60
Voluntary lot
Description
AVIATION - ACCIDENT MAIL - AIR FRANCE FLIGHT - Mail from Franfurt for Crédit Lyonnais Dakar-Sénégal - "The Super Constellation leaves Paris bound for Dakar and Abidjan. At 7.48 am it made final contact with the Dakar control tower and prepared to land at Sakar-Yoff. It crashed into the sea in bad weather on its 3rd attempt. All 55 passengers and 8 crew members were killed.
Some mail was recovered.
- LETTER with trace of wetness with supporting claw, struck in blue, text in frame 22 x 61 mm: "COURRIER ACCIDENTE / DAKAR le 29 août 1960. ".
Nierinck catalogue number 600 829
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ID: 87493928
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