Month: April 2013

  • BBC Report on 40th Anniversary

    BBC Report on 40th Anniversary

    The BBC reported on the 40th Anniversary with interviews with Joan Young, Sue Cooke, Jude Phillips and the Reverend Geoff Read. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22077051 Source – BBC News © copyright [2013] BBC Forty years on and the depth of emotion is still apparent in the Somerset communities devastated by an air crash in Switzerland. On April 10 1973…

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  • Willi Vögtli experienced the worst early on in a plane crash

    Willi Vögtli experienced the worst early on in a plane crash

    Media story on Swiss Website click to read Willi Vögtli experienced the worst early on in a plane crash Willi Vögtli, a doctor from Solothurn, was one of the first responders to the worst plane crash in Switzerland. On 10 April 1973, 40 years ago, a British charter plane crashed in Hochwald. The result: 108…

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  • BBC report on the Basle air crash

    BBC report on the Basle air crash

    The BBC reported on the 40th Anniversary memorial service. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22094227077051 Source – BBC News © copyright [2013] BBC A special memorial service has been held in the Swiss woodland where 108 people, mostly women, died in a plane crash 40 years ago.  The plane, which had taken off from Bristol, came down in the mountains outside Basel…

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