Lot 00996

28.3.1932. Air Crash at Crotone, Italy. Indochina – Greece – Marseilles route by Air Orient. Commercial air cover from Saigon (7.3.1932) to Paris (30.3.1932) with the stamps washed off, handstamped “COURRIER ACCIDENTE” (type CAC1) on arrival. The Corfu to Naples Air Orient seaplane from Corfu to Naples landed at Crotone in bad weather but broke its moorings and was stranded on a beach, the mails being soaked by sea water. Hellas: CF-12.