Category: News Reports
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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
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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40th Anniversary
Friends and relatives of more than 100 people from Somerset who died in an air crash in Switzerland are hoping to travel to the site next year to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy. The plane which set off from Bristol on 10 April 1973, crashed in a snow storm on a mountainside near…
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BBC Report – Relatives plan memorial trip
Friends and relatives of more than 100 people from Somerset who died in an air crash in Switzerland are hoping to travel to the site next year to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-19076479 Source – BBC News © copyright [2013] BBC Friends and relatives of more than 100 people from Somerset who died in…
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BBC reports on 2008 Memorial flight to mark crash date
The BBC reported on a newly-qualified pilot whose father and grandmother died in an air crash 35 years ago has flown a small plane to Switzerland to mark the anniversary.. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22077051 Source – BBC News © copyright [2008] BBC A newly-qualified pilot whose father and grandmother died in an air crash 35 years ago has flown…
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Pilgrimage to remember luckless 108 victims of the flight to disaster
Western Daily Press, Wednesday April 9, 2003 Thirty years ago, an aircraft carrying Somerset mums on a day trip to Switzerland hit a mountain, killing 108 passengers and crew. Today, the Western Daily Press can exclusively reveal the crash was a needless waste of life and should never have happened. ROGER TAVENER reports In a…
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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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