Category: Newspaper Reports
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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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Day out for alr crash orphans
By John Christopher, Daily Express Saturday 14th April 1973 THE ORPHANS of the Swiss air disaster were whisked away from the heart-breaking atmosphere of two motherless villages yesterday. Forty children from Axbridge and Cheddar in Somerset were taken to the seaside cinema at Weston-super-Mare to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The day-trip tragedy,…
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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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Susan’s song of courage in the snow
Daily Express April 12th 1973 By John Hamshire BASLE Wednesday SURVIVORS of the Oscar Pappa air disaster sat up in hospital beds today to say: “Thank heaven for Susan Dyer.” For many said they owed their lives to the 23-year- old auxiliary nurse who helped passenger after passenger from the twisted wreckage of the Vanguard…
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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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The anguish of Axbridge
Daily Express Staff Reporter Wednesday April 11th 1973 THIS IS a disaster area, the village square at Axbridge, Somerset. As pretty as ever it was, sparkling in the after- noon sunlight. But life here will never be quite the same again. For just as surely as if hit by an avalanche, the crushing tragedy of…
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