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The snow melts to reveal its secrets
From MALCOLM SMITH Hochwald, Saturday The snow is melting now from the tracks leading to the crash scene of Vanguard Oscar Pappa where I stand and contemplate in silence. Overhead, a helicopter carrying members of the investigation team flits into view momentarily between the tips of the pines. It is the only noise which breaks…
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Stay away from the air disaster villages: MP
Evening Post Saturday April 14th 1973 Stay away from the Somerset air disaster villages this weekend, Mr. Jerry Wiggin, M.P., appealed to- day. “The last thing we want is ghoulish onlookers pestering these people in their time of grief,” he said at his Abridge home. “There’s certainly nothing to all see here and I’m sure…
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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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CRASH WIPES OUT THE DAY TRIP MUMS
The Sun April 11, 1973. VILLAGERS wept in the streets last night for the tragic women who took a day-trip to disaster the women who died in the crash of Vanguard Oscar Papa. They were housewives, mothers, relatives, friends. And the West Country villages they lived in are stricken with grief. No one will forget…
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