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Mums’ day trip which devastated families right across the West.

April 5, 2016

The West Country Times Tuesday April 5, 2016 It’s over 40 years ago since the air crash that left hundreds of West Country families in mourning for mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunties and nieces. An English oak tree in a pine forest on a Swiss mountain marks the spot of the tragic plane crash on April…
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BBC Report on 40th Anniversary

April 10, 2013

The BBC reported on the 40th Anniversary with interviews with Joan Young, Sue Cooke, Jude Phillips and the Reverend Geoff Read. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22077051 Source – BBC News © copyright [2013] BBC Forty years on and the depth of emotion is still apparent in the Somerset communities devastated by an air crash in Switzerland. On April 10 1973…
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Willi Vögtli experienced the worst early on in a plane crash

April 10, 2013

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

April 10, 2013

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

March 2, 2013

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

August 1, 2012

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

April 10, 2008

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

April 9, 2003

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

April 11, 1974

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…

April 10, 1974

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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