Word: uiver
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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What he saw was all that remained of the world's most famed passenger plane, Royal Dutch Air Lines' (KLM) U. S.-built Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork). Last October in the Mildenhall-Melbourne air race (TIME. Oct. 29). Uiver flew over...
Last week Uiver left Amsterdam on a special Christmas flight to Java with three passengers, a crew of four, 54,000 pieces of mail. Between Cairo and Bagdad it encountered a violent thunderstorm, sent out an SOS. What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...
Back in Amsterdam, Netherlanders took Uiver's crash as a national catastrophe. Pre-Christmas gaiety turned to mourning for what had been the nation's pride. Flags were half-staffed, radio stations silenced and in Parliament tributes were paid to Uiver's dead...
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