FRANCE: DISASTERS - First exclusive pictures from R101 Disaster (1930)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Crash scenes in Beauvais, France of the R101 Airship which crashed during its maiden overseas voyage on October 5th 1930, killing fourty eight people.. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION - First exclusive pictures of R101 Disaster FRANCE: Near Beauvais EXT Pan smouldering wreckage of R101 / Investigators at scene / Newspaper headline R101 Airship in flight / French ceremony honouring victims of tragedy FRANCE: EXT Boulogne bodies of R101 disaster conveyed home by British warship HMS Tempest / French Naval personnel bow heads as coffins pass by / Coffins loaded onto warship ENGLAND: London: Victoria EXT Nighshot Crowds watch vehicles transport coffins of R101 victims Background: Crash scenes in Beauvais, France of the R101 Airship which crashed during its maiden overseas voyage on October 5th 1930, killing fourty
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