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British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.
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R101
British rigid airship destroyed in 1930
R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire. It was designed and built by an Air…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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