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United by Love

September 26, 1973

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

September 26, 1973

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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Die Katastrophe von Hochwald

April 24, 1973

This report was in a Swiss magazine has been first scanned and then translated from German so there are errors. But reading this account, including the mistakes, you get a different perspective to the British press stories.. The blind landing approach ended with death, tears and mourning. The unlucky plane “Invicta” Vanguard G-AXOP, which crashed…
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DISASTERS How Do You Tell The Children?

April 23, 1973

Time Magazine April 23, 1973 At 9:45 o’clock one morning last week, a four-engine Vanguard turbo- prop plane was fighting its way through an unseasonable blizzard to the airport of Basel, Switzerland, when it crashed into a nearby mountain. Of the 138 passengers and six crew members aboard, only 37 passengers and two stewardess- es…
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Three English Villages Sadly bury the Victims of Swiss Air Disaster

April 20, 1973

New York Times April 20, 1973 Women from this and six other communities nestling in the Mendip Hills of southwest England died on a charter flight to Switzerland that the tourist brochure described as a journey to “the fairy tale country for the day of your dreams.” They were headed for a Swiss spring fair.…
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Official lost of the dead and survivors

April 20, 1973

Weston Mercury & Somerset Herald April 20th 1973 THE FOLLOWING is the list of the dead and survivors of the crash issued from the information centre at Axbridge: THE DEAD Weston: Mrs. K. M. Jenkins, Moorland Road; Mrs. B. M. Moore, 11 Selbourne Road; Mrs. Road. M. Moore, 11 Broadoak Congresbury: Miss K. E. M.…
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Church packed for memorial service

April 20, 1973

Weston Mercury & Somerset Herald, April 20th 1973 More than 700 people packed St. Andrew’s parish church at Congresbury for a memorial service for the victims of the Swiss air dis- aster. Extra chairs were brought into the aisles, many stood in the porch, and others heard the service relayed in the refectory or on…
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100 plane crash victims named

April 20, 1973

Weston Mercury & Somerset Herald April 20th 1973 Over the past few days the Evening Post has received many requests for names of those who lost their lives in the Swiss air crash. Last night, the first official list of 100 victims was issued. It was: Cathleen Atwell Davis (71) • Linda (66) • Davis…
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Village funerals for Swiss crash victims

April 19, 1973

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)

April 19, 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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