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Remembrance plaque for French pioneer-pilots at Casablanca airport
Morocco, History, 10/5/2000
A commemorative plaque in remembrance of Pierre Georges Latecoere who inaugurated air-connections between France and Morocco, and other pioneer-pilots who risked their lives to push the undertaking through was unveiled at the Casablanca Mohammed V international airport.
The plaque is a tribute to bold pilots who achieved miracles in making of aviation an instrument of peace and communication such as Louis Bleriot, Jean Mermoz, Sait Exupery and Roland Garros.
Casablanca was the platform for the launching of the first commercial flight in the world when it helped connect Morocco to France in 1919 becoming an unavoidable stop-over for the ''Aeropostale Latecoere'' providing flights from France to Latin-America.
The Toulouse-Tarfaya-Saint Louis air rally which landed Wednesday in Dakhla, coming from Laayoun, is also a tribute to those pioneers of civil aviation. The twelve aircrafts representing Morocco, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg and Poland take-off today for Mauritania, using the same route, as those used early in the century, with Saint Louis in Senegal as their final destination.
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