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Word: capellaro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...American's southbound Stratocruiser, just off from Rio en route to Montevideo, had reached 12,000 feet. In the morning sunlight, the clouds sparkled brilliantly. One of the 28 passengers, U.S.-born Mrs. Marie Westbrook Capellaro, wife of a Roman banker, pressed her camera against a window, eagerly taking pictures. Suddenly the cabin door popped open and the plane yawed. When Mrs. Capellaro's husband turned to look at his wife, she was gone-sucked from the pressurized cabin through the open hatch and, after a fall of approximately one minute and 25 seconds, dropped without a trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Blown into the Sea | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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