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Show 13 KILLED IN SOVIET CRASH MOSCOW," Feb. 8 (U.H Thirteen Thir-teen men of a crew of 18 were killed when Russia's biggest dirigible dir-igible crasned into a mountain on a trial, flight preparatory to a dash to the rescue of four scientists scien-tists drifting- on a small ice floe off Greenland, it was announced tod ay-Three ay-Three ice breakers were on the way to pick up the four scientists, but the position of the " scentists, who had drifted more than 1,000 miles southward from the North Pole, was becoming desperate. The government had made arrangements ar-rangements for the toig dirigible USSR-V6 to land on the ice and rescue the four men- The USSR V6 took off from Moscow on a trial flight to Murmansk, on the Arctic coast. The dirigible met an area of bad visibility and crashed into a mountain near Kandalaksha, 177 miles from Murmansk. Thirteen of the crew were killed, it was announced, and three were seriously seri-ously injured. |