Crash site | Alicante, Spain |
Airline | CGEA (Compagnie Generale d’Entreprises Aeronautiques) |
Aircraft | Breguet-Latécoère 14 – F-AEEP |
Route | Casablanca – Alicante – Barcelona – Toulouse |
Crew | ? |
Passengers | ? |
The crash
Not much information about the crash of this flying boat is known.
On final approach to Alicante, Spain the plane hit the roof of a house and crashed in flames.
The mail
A small part of the mail was recovered and transported from Alicante to Toulouse, France by the ship S/S Chili. After processing in Toulouse the mail was forwarded to the recipients in French service covers with a special label attached. Both the service covers and labels can be found in different types.
Only one Nordic item is known.
A-a.
French label.
Size textblock: ?
Translation:
Mail found in the debris of the mail plane which burned at Alicante 11 December 1925.
Examples of mail
Cover from Morocco postmarked CASABLANCA 9 12 25 to Copenhagen, Denmark. The cover was forwarded from TOULOUSE GARE 23 12 25 in a French service cover type No 10-2 with crash label type A-a. | |