Day: April 12, 1973
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SURVIVORS HUDDLED IN SNOW PRAYED AND SANG HYMNS
Daily Telegraph April 12th 1973. By TERENCE SHAW in Basle Women clambered along luggage racks in upturned plane, led to safety by stewardess. WOMEN survivors from the Vanguard airliner which crashed near Basle-Mulhouse airport on Tuesday in low cloud and heavy snow told in hospital at Dornach yesterday how they prayed and sang as they huddled…
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PILOT LOST HIS WAY
Daily Telegraph April 12th 1973. By TERENCE SHAW in Hochwald. near Basle THE pilot of the chartered Vanguard that crashed near Basle on Tuesday killing 105 of the 145 aboard made a mistake about the position of his plane, it was claimed last night. Mr John Owen. head of the British Government’s investigation team at the…
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100 children left motherless by air crash
Daily Telegraph April 12th 1973. By MAURICE WEAVER & CHRISTOPHER BRAMWELL 100 children left motherless by air crash ALMOST 100 children in four Somerset villages were left motherless by Tuesday’s crash of the Vanguard airliner near Basle, it was believed last night. Most of the 105 victims of the disaster were members of women’s clubs in…
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Susan’s song of courage in the snow
Daily Express April 12th 1973 By John Hamshire BASLE Wednesday SURVIVORS of the Oscar Pappa air disaster sat up in hospital beds today to say: “Thank heaven for Susan Dyer.” For many said they owed their lives to the 23-year- old auxiliary nurse who helped passenger after passenger from the twisted wreckage of the Vanguard…
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PILOT LOST HIS WAY’
Daily Telegraph April 12th 1973. By TERENCE SHAW in Hochwald. near Basle THE pilot of the chartered Vanguard that crashed near Basle on Tuesday killing 105 of the 145 aboard made a mistake about the position of his plane, it was claimed last night. Mr John Owen. head of the British Government’s investigation team at the…
