The Crash of a Royal Dutch Airlines KLM Constellation L749 Bombay, India July 12, 1949

The KLM Constellation that crashed on approach to Santa Cruz Airport in Bombay, India killed all 45 persons on board. Among them were 13 American journalists, two of them Pulitzer Prize winners. They worked for Time, Scripps-Howard, Business Week and many more newspapers and publications. The flight arriving from New Delhi was stopping en route to Amsterdam and finally New York. The big airliner was flying into an incessant rain produced by an Indian monsoon.