14 Are Killed as Giant Plane Falls -- August 2, 2019

http://www.europeanairlines.no/The_civil_aircraft_of_Caproni.pdf

The Caproni Ca.48 was a triplane airliner adapted from the Ca.4 bomber of World War One.  On a trial flight on 02-August-1919, it flew from the factory near Milan to Venice.  On the return flight, the wings buckled and the plane crashed, killing everyone aboard.  Accounts vary as to the number of passengers and crew.  This article is from the 03-August-1919 New York Tribune.  

14 Are Killed as

Giant 'Plane Falls

Caproni's Passengers and

Crew Dashed 3,000 Ft.

to Death Near Verona

ROME, Aug. 2 (By The Associated Press).-- A Caproni airplane flying from Venice to Milan to-day with fourteen persons on board fell to the ground from a height of 1,000 metres (about 3,300 feet) near Verona. All on board were killed.

The giant Caproni airplanes were specially designed and built to establish passenger service between the principal Italian cities, which was to be further extended to French and British cities as the business developed. The service between Venice and Milan was to be inaugurated this summer, and yesterday's disastrous flight may have been the first trip of the ill-fated machine.

Caproni Ca.20 -- August 1, 2010

Another highlight of our July, 2010 visit to Seattle was the Museum of Flight. It is an enormous collection that we were not able to finish going through in three hours. I took this photo in the Personal Courage Wing, which features airplanes, mostly fighters, from World War One and World War Two. This is the only Ca.20 built, which was saved in a barn by Gianni Caproni and his family. Built in 1914, the Ca.20 was one of the earliest airplanes designed as a fighter. The machine gun sits on the stand above the single wing so it can fire over the arc of the propeller. The propeller seemed too short to me, but perhaps that was to make it easier to fire over.