79 | Air Mail Crash Covers

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1965. 3 p violet, two stamps. MAIRN (GREAT BRITAIN) to PUERTO DE LA CRUZ. Plane of the Iberia Company (IB401) that covered the Madrid-Tenerife route, crashes on the approach maneuver to Los Rodeos airport on May 5, 1965, due to inclement weather, the plane catches fire and only sixteen survive people of the forty-eight that were travelling, the correspondence that could be saved, is recovered and the mark RECOVERED FROM / PLANE LOST, in purple, is applied. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.