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Peace, a year after horror
Wester Daily Press Reporter April 11th 1974 A MONUMENT to 108 people who died when an airliner plunged into a wooded hillside in Hochwald, Switzerland, exactly one, year ago, was unveiled yesterday. A total of 140 relatives and friends, and 20 of the 37 survivors looked on. They travelled in two bus-loads from England, to lay wreaths…
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True Neighbours…
The Bristol Evening Post 10th April 1974 – From Malcolm Smith BASLE, The people of this part of the borderland of the Swiss nation gave the world a lesson on the meaning of a true neighbour John R. Wraight, British Ambassador. Thursday Flags still fly at half-mast at the airport here as British visitors head…
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United by Love
Daily Mirror September 26, 1973 A couple united by tragedy share joy of a new love. He is John Newell, whose wife and two children died in a plane crash She is the 20-year-old Swiss Salvation Army girl who comforted him. Now the couple, pictured at John’s home in Redfield, Bristol, plan to marry in…
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Plane tragedy husband to wed again
By GRAEME BOWD, Daily Mail, Wednesday September 26th 1973 JOHN NEWELL lost his family last April when an airliner taking West Country women and children to Switzerland on a day trip crashed in a snowstorm near Basle killing 108 people. But now, out of that tragedy, a new love has been born. For John Newell…
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Die Katastrophe von Hochwald
This report was in a Swiss magazine has been first scanned and then translated from German so there are errors. But reading this account, including the mistakes, you get a different perspective to the British press stories.. The blind landing approach ended with death, tears and mourning. The unlucky plane “Invicta” Vanguard G-AXOP, which crashed…
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DISASTERS How Do You Tell The Children?
Time Magazine April 23, 1973 At 9:45 o’clock one morning last week, a four-engine Vanguard turbo- prop plane was fighting its way through an unseasonable blizzard to the airport of Basel, Switzerland, when it crashed into a nearby mountain. Of the 138 passengers and six crew members aboard, only 37 passengers and two stewardess- es…
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Three English Villages Sadly bury the Victims of Swiss Air Disaster
New York Times April 20, 1973 Women from this and six other communities nestling in the Mendip Hills of southwest England died on a charter flight to Switzerland that the tourist brochure described as a journey to “the fairy tale country for the day of your dreams.” They were headed for a Swiss spring fair.…
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Official lost of the dead and survivors
Weston Mercury & Somerset Herald April 20th 1973 THE FOLLOWING is the list of the dead and survivors of the crash issued from the information centre at Axbridge: THE DEAD Weston: Mrs. K. M. Jenkins, Moorland Road; Mrs. B. M. Moore, 11 Selbourne Road; Mrs. Road. M. Moore, 11 Broadoak Congresbury: Miss K. E. M.…
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Church packed for memorial service
Weston Mercury & Somerset Herald, April 20th 1973 More than 700 people packed St. Andrew’s parish church at Congresbury for a memorial service for the victims of the Swiss air dis- aster. Extra chairs were brought into the aisles, many stood in the porch, and others heard the service relayed in the refectory or on…
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100 plane crash victims named
Weston Mercury & Somerset Herald April 20th 1973 Over the past few days the Evening Post has received many requests for names of those who lost their lives in the Swiss air crash. Last night, the first official list of 100 victims was issued. It was: Cathleen Atwell Davis (71) • Linda (66) • Davis…
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