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AEROPHILATELIE - COURRIER ACCIDENTE MAY 9 1933 - COMPAGNIE AEROPOSTALE - AVION LATECOERE 28 - Line CASABLANCA to TOULOUSE; Crew: pilots EMLER and RIGUELLE, radio navigator GUYOMAR. 3 passengers: Mr. Valette and Mr. and Mrs. Subiere. The plane leaves Barcelona at 2.03pm for Perpignan. Shortly after departure, the radio signaled that they were climbing above the clouds for better visibility, and asked for weather information on the Perpignan to Toulouse route. No further contact is made. At 2:30 p.m., at an altitude of 1,700 metres, in the village of Villadrau, near Villa Grande, the plane collides with a village house. The crew and passengers were killed, and the plane caught fire from leaking fuel. The mail, badly damaged by the fire, is recovered and forwarded with a special stamp: -LETTRE au départ de Casablanca, cachet à date 8 Mai 1933 - fortement incendiée en pourtour, porte la griffe justificative des postes de France : "CORRESPONDANCE AVION retardée et détérioré par la suite de l'accident aérien survenu le 9 mai 1933" (struck in violet). Also on the front, arrival stamp "TOULOUSE REBUTS 12 MAI 1933".
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AEROPHILATELIE - COURRIER ACCIDENTE MAY 9 1933 - COMPAGNIE AEROPOSTALE - AVION LATECOERE 28 - Line CASABLANCA to TOULOUSE; Crew: pilots EMLER and RIGUELLE, radio navigator GUYOMAR. 3 passengers: Mr. Valette and Mr. and Mrs. Subiere. The plane leaves Barcelona at 2.03pm for Perpignan. Shortly after departure, the radio signaled that they were climbing above the clouds for better visibility, and asked for weather information on the Perpignan to Toulouse route. No further contact is made. At 2:30 p.m., at an altitude of 1,700 metres, in the village of Villadrau, near Villa Grande, the plane collides with a village house. The crew and passengers were killed, and the plane caught fire from leaking fuel. The mail, badly damaged by the fire, is recovered and forwarded with a special stamp: -LETTRE au départ de Casablanca, cachet à date 8 Mai 1933 - fortement incendiée en pourtour, porte la griffe justificative des postes de France : "CORRESPONDANCE AVION retardée et détérioré par la suite de l'accident aérien survenu le 9 mai 1933" (struck in violet). Also on the front, arrival stamp "TOULOUSE REBUTS 12 MAI 1933".
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