AIRLINER CRASH
Night Vigil By Bodies (Rec. 8.20 p.m.) TRENTO, Dec. 25 In the little Church of St. Anthony at Ossana, a village nestling in the Alps in northern Italy, relatives kept a Christmas Night vigil by the bodies of the 21 passengers and crew who were killed in an airliner crash on Saturday night. Since dawn today, more than 50 men from mountain rescue teams, and ski police, had struggled in temperatures below zero to free the bodies, frozen into the snow of 7000 ft Mount Giner. Tonight, as lamps winked over the snow from cottage windows, the first group laid down their stretchers on the bare floor of the tiny church. Tomorrow, four members of a Government - appointed inquiry commission planned to land at the scene of the crash by helicopter. The crashed plane was an Italian airliner DC-3, on a regular flight from Rome to Milan. Its pilot signalled Milan airport on Saturday that ice formation had threatened to block the controls. Nothing more was heard of the plane until mountaineers near Trento saw a blaze on the peaks in the Dolomites above them.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 7
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