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Worst airplane tragedy in history, the Maxim Gorki disaster was Russia's third major air crash. In September 1933 five of her highest aviation officials, along with several other persons, died in a crash near Moscow. Two months later the super-airliner K7, then the world's largest land-plane, killed 14 in a crash at Kharkov. Mournfully last week the Kremlin announced a State funeral for the latest victims, compensation for their families...
Near Kharkov, Russia, last week Soviet-built K7, biggest landplane in the world (128 passengers), crashed to death its 14 occupants. All were highly skilled aviation technicians and pilots, of whom U. S. S. R. has had a shortage since last September when another crash killed seven technicians and executives (TIME, Sept...