Crash cover
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crash-cover-247-15206414
title:
Crash cover
text:
A crash cover is a philatelic term for a type of cover, meaning an envelope or package that has been recovered from an air crash, train wreck, shipwreck or other accident. Crash covers are a type of interrupted mail. Crashes of flights carrying airmail were a regular occurrence from the earliest days of mail transport by air. In many cases of aircraft crashes, train wreck and shipwrecks, it was possible to recover some or even all of the mail being carried, with perhaps some charring around the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mail recovered from an accident
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_cover
date created:
date modified:
2024-02-23T04:18:09Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Envelope_carrying_plane_crash_stamp.jpg","width":3744,"height":2646}
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13
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