Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry on the radio in 1938, recounting a plane crash he had
in Guatemala, then giving his impressions of aviation in the United
States.
On February 14, 1938, Saint-Exupéry and Prévot left New York on the board of their Simoun to break the New York - Punta Arenas record in Tierra del Fuego. On take-off from Guatemala City, due to a confusion in the units of measurement (the Guatemalan stripe is different from the American one), due to the fuel surcharge, the plane crashed at the end of the runway.
"When I was taken off the plane, I was the biggest piece of debris," Saint-Exupéry would later say, who remained in a coma for several days.
On February 14, 1938, Saint-Exupéry and Prévot left New York on the board of their Simoun to break the New York - Punta Arenas record in Tierra del Fuego. On take-off from Guatemala City, due to a confusion in the units of measurement (the Guatemalan stripe is different from the American one), due to the fuel surcharge, the plane crashed at the end of the runway.
"When I was taken off the plane, I was the biggest piece of debris," Saint-Exupéry would later say, who remained in a coma for several days.
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