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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 9

Two Die in N. [?]

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

Crash

TWO college students wem in a small plane belonjn the New Caledonia Aeroi on Sunday morning, March r The students were Claude I 19, and Bertrand Germain, , cousin. Nugues, who pilots plane, had held a pilot’s licee;

12 months; his cousin wenln as passenger.

They took off from Magens strip near Noumea amn low over Germain’s house, afterward the plane plungeg first into a low hill about 300 c from the house. Germain’s a' saw the accident and helpedbi the victims from the wreck, was killed outright; German soon afterwards.

The plane is a total loss.

The plane shortly after it had plq[?] to the ground.