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Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo fatal attempt to takeoff in his grossly overloaded (including 1000 gallons of fuel) Bellanca J-3-500 for a distance record flight from New York to Bagdad on 2 September 1933 from Floyd Bennett Field, NY.

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