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Village funerals for Swiss crash victims
Daily Telegraph April 13th FUNERAL services for the victims of the Swiss air crash- flown home yesterday- will be held this week in Somerset villages. In Axbridge a service will be held tomorrow for 16 of the dead, some of them from Cheddar.Thirteen of the victims will be buried in a mass grave and three…
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THIRTEEN SWISS AIR CRASH VICTIMS BURIED IN MASS GRAVE. (1973)
British Pathe News report for the service and buriel of 13 victims of the Swiss Air Disaster April 1973. A mass grave in an English country churchyard marks the burial place of 13 victims who died last week’s air disaster in Basle, Switzerland.
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Bristol hit most by air disaster
Bristol Evening Post Tuesday April 17th 1973 The official list of victims and survivors of the Swiss air disaster was read today’s meeting of Abridge Rural Council and showed that Bristol suffered more dead than any other place. Council chairman, CIr. John Walter, read out the list. The figures are: Survived Died Abridge 15 12…
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Crash fund may top £20,000 tonight
Evening Post, Tuesday April 17th 1973 Crash fund may top £20,000 tonight Gifts pouring in for families bereaved by the Swiss air disaster looks like top- ping £20,000 by tonight. The general launched to cover fund the Axbridge, Cheddar, Congresbury and Wrington areas has now reached £11,085. The people of Basel have contributed more than…
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No ‘grief probe’ in villages
Bristol Evening Post Tuesday April 17th 1973 There was relief in four Somerset villages today that they will be able to mourn victims of the Swiss air disaster in private. Strenuous official denials have quelled fears of a psychiatric survey of grief In Axbridge, Cheddar, Congresbury and Wrington. Mr. John Todd, chairman of Abridge Parish Council,…
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Crash fund may top £20,000 tonight
Bristol Evening Post *** Tuesday April 17th 1973 Gifts pouring in for families bereaved by the Swiss air disaster looks like topping £20,000 by tonight. The general launched fund to cover the Axbridge, Cheddar, Congresbury and Wrington areas has now reached £11,085. The people of Basle have contributed more than £5,625 and money pouring into…
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Victims are flown back
Bristol Evening Post *** Tuesday April 17th 1973 The 106 victims of the Swiss plane disaster were flown back to Bristol today a week after they set off on what was to have been a happy day out. The bodies were flown into Lulsgate Airport from Basle in a Vanguard of Invicta International airlines. Funeral services will be…
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The quiet heroine holidays ‘at home’
Bristol Evening Post *** Tuesday April 17th 1973 One of the quiet heroines of the aftermath of the Swiss air disaster was today on holiday in Cheddar, one of the villages worst hit by the crash. Swiss-born Miss Rebecca Stockli, a doctor’s assistant in Basle, was back in the home where she spent some time…
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AIR CRASH PUZZLES
Sunday Telegraph April 15th 1973. By JOHN SMALLDON AMONG the many questions still unanswered following crash last Tuesday’s of Vanguard Oscar Papa at Hochwald in Switzerland, two seem to be most relevant to investigators probing the cause of the disaster. How could an aircraft, as is usual when so near to touching down, under the strictest…
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146 in Bristol plane crash
Bristol Evening Post ** Tuesday April 10th 1973 Day trip ends in snow plunge-‘some injured’ A Vanguard charter plane from Bristol, with 139 passengers on board, crashed in severe snowstorm near Base airport in Switzerland this afternoon. First provisional official reports were there was an unspecified number of survivors. NEWS FLASH Swiss news agency ATS…
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