Category: Daily Telegraph
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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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Crash dead listed as survivors angers villagers
Daily Telegraph April 13th 1973 By CHRISTOPHER BRAMWELL THE sorrow of relatives and friends of victims of the Swiss air disaster turned to anger yesterday when it was discovered that four people named as survivors on lists passed to the village of Abridge were in fact dead. Relatives of the four vic-tims flew to Basel…
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SWISS JOIN MOURNERS IN CHURCH
Daily Telegraph By TERENCE SHAW 1973 In Dornach, near Basel RELATIVES and friends of the victims and survivors of the Hochwald air disaster joined with local villagers, rescue workers and Swiss Ministers and officials in a memorial service at Dornach, Basel, yesterday. Some 180 relatives and friends who had flown to Switzerland on Wednesday night,…
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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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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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34 SURVIVORS NAMED
Daily Telegraph April 11th 1973 Invicta International Airlines said in London last night that 39 of the 139 passengers and six crew of the Vanguard Survived the crash. The following list of 34 of the survivors, with five names to be added later, was issued Not seriously Ill: Miss J. Besley, Mrs J. Bowen. Master R.…
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APPALLING WEATHER Within landing limits
Daily Telegraph April 11th 1973 OUR AIR CORRESPONDENT writes: -The weather conditions at Base were appalling and this may have contributed to the cause of the crash. Snow is one of the worst conditions for pilots. It is confusing and disorientating. But the Vanguard pilot should have been able to cope. The Vanguard has no automatic…
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VILLAGES WAIT IN FEAR
Daily Telegraph April 11th 1973 By Christopher Bramwell By AS details of the Swiss air crash and names of the dead filtered through, people in the four Somerset villages from which most of the victims came were numbed last night. In Abridge, whose population is only about 1,200. it was feared that over 50 young mothers,…
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